Evening star., 1922-09-29
D. c. NIGHT SCHOOLS
TO OPEN MONDAY
New Courses to Coordinate
With Program of Day.
time Schools.
WILL AWARD DIPLOMAS
New Plan of Operation Covers
Much Ground in Simplifed
!, Form.

With definite courses of study.
which will coordinate for the first
time with the day school program.
WAshington's public night schools
will open Monday for the new scho-
lastic year. Plans for the operation
of these schools. under the new ar
rangement, We're virtually completed
today by Walter B. Patterson, d.
rector Of special schools, and the
night school principals.
Under the new plan of operation.
which was adopted after a careful
study of a special committee on CO.
ordina ton of night and day schools,
headed by Mr.. Patterson, it VIII be
possible for students who complete
the required cours" 20 be rewarded
with diploma. while not fully the
the graduate Of day school, the
night school diploma. according to
Supt. Frank W Ballou, will be a
worthy testimonial of merit
Course Is Simplifed.
The night school instruction. under
the definite course of study plan, Will
cover essentially the same ground as
the required work in the day schools,
but it will be Simplified and adapted
bilious night students who are other
wise employed in the day. Twenty
four semester credits will be required
for graduation. Each credit will
represent an hours work per school
night for one semester of fifteen or
more weeks. Students will have the
choice of studies along several major
lines, but at least two years OF Eng
lish and one of American history or
civics will be necessary. Advance
credit may be allowed for work else
where. but at least one full year must
be spent in the District schools.
Buildings for Schools.
Night schools this year will be con-
Quoted in the following school
Business High School, 9th street and
Rhode Island avenue: Eastern High
School, 7th and c streets southeast NC,
Kinley Manual Training School. Itn ana
Rhode Island avenue: the Americaniza-
tion School, 7th and o strets; the
Smallwood Vocational School. l street
between Sd and 413 streets southwest !;
the Wallach, Sth street and Pennsyi-
yania avenue southeast; the Henry. 'th
and p streets; the Jefferson. 9TH ana u
streets southwest. and the Park view,
on Warter street between Newton and
Otis streets.
The colored night schools will be con-
Quoted in the following schoolhouses:
Dunbar High School, 1st street between
N and o streets: Armstrong Manual
Training School, P street between lst
and Sd streets; Garnet-Patterson, 10th
and U streets; Stevens, 21st street be-
tween K and L streets; Randall, lst
and I streets; Cardoza Vocational,
street between Half and 1st streets
southwest, and the Lovejoy, at 18th and
D streets northeast.
Time for Registration.
The white graded. schools will be
open Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock
graded schools will open for this pur-
pose at o'clock. Eastern High
School will open Monday at $50 pm.
for registration. Business at pm,
the Mckinley at 1880 pm. ana the
Americanization School at $50 pm.
Dunbar and Armstrong high schools
(colored) will open at o'clock for
registration. All of these schools also
will open at the same hours men
toned above on Wednesday evening
for registration.
The course Of study at Business High
School will include arithmetic, Span
fish, bookkeeping, commercial law,
shorthand, typewriting. English, gym
nasium work, penmanshlp, calculating
machine operating and office train
ing The latter course will be given
only in case the registration for 1t
justifies.
High School Course.
The Eastern High School course will
include business arithmetic. bookkeep-
ing, Pitman and Gregg shorthand. type
writing, algebra, French, Spanish and
English.
In organizing the night schools this
year officials adopted a new system
Of centralizng them in the sections OF
the city where the enrollments in tho
past have been large, and closing the
buildings in the outlying districts. This
was done. principally. it, was pointed
out, because the limited appropriation
of SIS, 900 for the operation and MAIN
tenance of the night school system
would not permit the opening Of schools
in the outlying sections where the en-
rollment in past years has been un-
usually small.