Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-09
OLD SCHOOL PLAN
FAVORED BY BOARD
Fairfax County Body Votes
to Maintain Present
System.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpaICn 10 Inc quar-
FAIRFAX, Va, May 9-The Fairfax
County School Board Monday, deliber-
ating in executive session, voted to con-
tinue the three high schools in Dranes-
vile district on the same basis which
they have been maintained this past
year, with the exception that the prin-
cipalship at Floris Agricultural and Vo-
cational High School be combined with
the agricultural instructorship. The
vote on the Floris situation was 5-4.
Under the county unit tax law the
cost of supporting three high schools in
one district will be borne by all tax
payers. The vote leaving high school
instruction at Forestville next year
stood 81.
Floris School Discussed.
A committee from the Pomona
Grange, Wilson D. McNair, w. C. Wal
ker, Ronald Blake, H. M. CASTOR and
Harvey S. Clapp, urged the Importance
of continuing agricultural and voca-
tional work in the county, and recon-
mended that it be continued at Floris,
which now had the necessary buildings
for this work They also recommended
that the agricultural instructor and
principalship be combined in one office,
as was later ordered.
Mrs. C.. r. Wickline asked the board
not to discontinue the school at Colyin
Run entirely next year, but to leave one
teacher for the primary grades. The
board deferred action pending investi-
CATION of the condition of the road be-
tween Colvin Run and Forestville. L. B..
Morris and S. M. Follin as committee
from Great Falls Grange, asked the
board to defer action on the Forestville
situation. Mrs. John Howdershell, w. N.
Miller and a committee from Lincolnia
stated it had been rumored their school
was to be consolidated with Annandale,
and they asked for continuation on the
present basis.
Messrs. Lynch, Woodson and Styles
reported as a committee on the Falls
Church colored school situation, and the
board adopted resolution expressing
its sympathy with the aspirations of
the colored citizens for new building
and Its regrets that no funds were avail
able for immediate construction. The
board approved the plan of the colored
citizens to purchase for $4,000 the two
acres approved by the committee and
the erection of a building to cost not
over $1,000. A delegation of colored
citizens from Herndon,- headed by A. 7.
Shirley, asked for new school at Oak
Grove, but no action was taken. F.
Reciprocity Report Made.
Herbert Williams reported that he
had interviewed r. G. Bowton, super
intendent of Alexandria schools in re-
gard to reciprocity between Fairfax
County and Alexandria City on school
tuition. and that Bowton had viewed
with favor and promised to present
to the City School Board for ratif1ca-
ton the proposal of Williams that Alex
andria pay to Fairfax County for tut
ton of its children attending Lee
Jackson School the same tuition now
paid for Fairfax County children at
tending Alexandria schools Mr.. VIII
liams also proposed that Fairfax
County pay to Alexandria for tuition
of colored children at Seminary a fee
based on the proportionate cost of in
struction in colored and white schools.
Samuel Styles. representative from
Falls Church, reported that the school
tax situation there had been solved
satisfactorily and that Commissioner
of Revenue j. u. Kincheloe had ex-
tended to the town taxpayers the 95-
cent county school levy assessed against
the remainder of the county, in &C.
cordance with ruling entered by At
torney General John r. Saunders.