The age-herald., 1897-09-14
PUBLIC SCHOOL OPENING
The Board of Education Has
 Completed Arrangements.
WILL OPEN SEPTEMBER 27
City Will Again Be Forced to Charge Tuition livery Pupil Required to Present
 Certificate of Vaccination.

Everything is in readiness for the op- ening of the public schools on Sept. 27. The board of education met last night, settled the question of tuition and made all necessary arrangements.
 There were present Messrs. Lane, Gregg, Steiner, Gray and vics-Presl- dent Evans.
 As announced last May, it is neces- sary that a tuition fee shall be charged in all of the schools for the present year. The failure of '.he O'Brien tax law be- fore the supreme court has rendered this step necessary. In reference to this matter the following r.soludons were adopted:
 Whereas, The proper maintenance of l our public schools requires that tuition l fees shall be charged for the ensuing year.
 Be 1t resolved, first, That the follow ing rates of tuition per scholastic month shall be collected in advance from pupils attending the public schools during the scholastic seeeion opening Monday, Sep | tsnber 27, 1897:
 White Schools.
 Grades first and secord resident s1 nonresident, $1.5O; grades third and fourth, resident $150; nonresident, $2 grades fifth, sixth and seventh, resident, $2; nonresident, s2.5O; high school. rasi- dent, $3; nonresident $4
 Negro Schools-
 Grades first and second, resident, 50 cents; nonresident, 75 cents; grades, third and fourth, resident, 75 cents; nom resident, $1; grades fifth, sixth and ssv- enth, resident, $1; nonresident, $1.5O.
 2. The foregoing rates of tuition shall be paid promptly upon the entrance of the pupil in school, as a condition of reg istration, and every four weeks there after in advance, while the pupil remains a member of the school, provided that there shall be discount of 25 per cent. to. any parent or guardian sending more than two children
 8. No pupil shall be exempted from payment of tuition except by authority of the board of education.
 4. That all tuition collected from the white pupils shall be applied exclusively to the maintenance of white schools, and all tuition collected from negro children shall be applied exclusively to the man tenance of negro schools.
 The following resolution, tatrc'luIesd by MT. Gray. was adopted:
 Resolved, That every child before en- lteEtng school sIhall be requi:l,d to fur n.sh the teacher a certificate from a rsgf uJar practaotng physician of successful vaccination Or inmurdty from infec Ious Usease.
 The following jsnjbors were elec ed for the en-qling year: Paul Hayne sdhool, J. c. OHalra; Henley s,hool, Edlwaih Ward Powell school, w. Y. Pdtl.e; High school, James Lewis.
 Dr. FlaH.ps looks forward hopefully to the opening of the seIhoois. He dasp- ly deptcuSs the necessity for charging julien for the maintenance of the schools, bur he said [he had determined to make the ersuang year one CT one most successful in the.r history along the lbres of instruction and disc.plne He believes thas tfJs people of BiImlnS- ham will raIfy to the support of the board of education in rher efforts 10 nasrnta1n the schools under the present conldhionr. After tJhe present year, 1t IS claimed tine slotooqs will have a'mp,e revenue, for which provision has been made in rlhe Birmingham amerdment to the conaiitul1cn elf the state, which it is D6HeV6Q WIlf pass TeXl AuSu.W
 AS Monday, the 27th of September, the day selected for the opening Of the schools is the Jewish new year, a large number of pupils will be hindered from entering the first day.
 The Birmingham High school during the present year will be conducted on the same high plane of discipline and scholarship as heretofore. Principal A. C. Moore is still at the University of Chicago, where he has been pursuing special studies for the past twelve . weeks. He will return next week, and will be assisted by the following fac ulty: Misses W. M. Allen, B. A. Allen, H. R. Thornton, R. c. Hamilton, B. H. Gelders, A. R. Klos.
 Prof. Charles A. Brown, formerly in charge of the science department of the High school, succeeds Prof. Roof as principal of the Henley school.
 Miss Mary A. Cahalan continues as principal of the Powell school, the posi- tion she has filled for the past twelve years and Prof J. B. Cunningham as principal of the Paul Hayne school, will again welcome the children of the South Side