Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-21
SCHOOLS TO OPEN
TOMORROW WITH
RECORD ROLLS SEEN
Public Colleges Are One OF
Four innovations for Edu-
cationaI Year.
BIG BUILDING PLANS
WILL BE PUSHED
Free Text Books for Both Junior
and Senior High Schools
Provided.

Approximately $4,000 Washington
BOYS and girls will go back to their
class rooms at o'clock tomorrow
morning when the District OF Columbia
public schools open their doors for the
1930-31 academic year.
The 1900 teachers who are to guide
the educational quest of these students
have been back at their desks since Fri
day when they met with supervisors
and directors to plan for the Inaugural
ton of what is expected to be par
ticularly interesting school year.
Four Innovations.
The l930-3l season will be notable
in at least four respects. 1t will witness
the maintenance for the first time here
of public schools of college grade; 1t
will record unusual school building ac-
tivity. and, In the confident expectations
of school officers. it is expected to be
marked by record peak enrolment OF
76, 900 students. and by distribution of
free textbooks in both senior and junior
high schools.
Plans for enrolment of Washington
children we're completed weeks ago.
Elementary school children who were
in the schools last Spring will report to
their old class rooms. From there they
will be transferred to new locations.
This, school officers have pointed out,
applies to children who have moved,
and therefore seek transfer to other
schools; they must apply for transfer
cards at last years class rooms.
Elementary school children who are
entering school for the first time to-
morrow are to be taken to school build
ingS nearest their homes. They must
have with them birth certificate or
some other legal proof Of age, and
vaccination certificate.
High School Instructions.
Old high school students will report
to their former schools. Those who are
to be transferred will get their change
executed like elementary pupils will.
New high school pupils who are enter
ing from elementary school will report
directly to their new schools in accord
ance with the transfers issued them at
the close of school last year. New high
school students entering from private
schools or from out of the city will pre-
sent themselves at buildings assigned
them by the High School Board of Ad-
missions Wednesday and Thursday.
With elimination of the underage kin
dergartens approved by the Board Of
Education two weeks ago, the youngest
child in the public schools this year will
be five years old by November, with
the exception of the underage kinder
garten applicants for the Webster
Americanization School, which was ex-
empt from the elimination order Ele-
mentary school applicants must be six
year. old by November 1.
Offering previously three-year courses
the Wilson and the Minor Normal
School tomorrow become in actual fact
teacher colleges with academic degrees
for graduating students. Courses for
prospective teachers in these two in
stitutions now are four years long
However, while normal school gradu
ates always have been given teaching
positions on strength of diplomas,
teacher college students entering class
tomorrow will be obliged to essay COM
petitive examinations to obtain places
in schools OF the District following
graduation.
School Building Plans.
Thirteen school building projects will
be launched during the coming season
to give more adequate accommodations
for Washington pupils. The proposed
structures include eight-room schools for
Wesley Heights and for Chevy Chase
at Northampton street and Broad
Branch road: a four-room school for
Tenth and Franklin streets northeast;
eight-room additions for the Whittier
and new A. j. Bowen Schools, and four
room additions to the Deanwood and
Congress Heights Schools, in the ele-
mentary school field.
The Junior high schools will receive
new 27-room building adjoining
Eastern High School; a 12-room addi-
ton for the Gordon Junior High
School; a 10-room addition to the
Stuart Junior High School, and
third-f1oor addition to the Powell
Junior High School. The new Theo-
dore Roosevelt High School, to be be-
gun shortly for completion by next
September, Is the only senior high
school construction proposed and it will
replace the old Business High School
which begins its final year tomorrow.
This year high school students will
not be obliged to scramble for text
books in bookshops Textbooks and
supplies will be provided under the free
textbook law to every junior and senior
high school pupil for the first time this
year. Under the plan adopted for their
distribution, parents must agree to be
responsible for all volumes and sup
plies loaned by the schools to the chill
dren, a provision never before legally
made, although elementary pupils have
had free books for many years.