Evening star., 1937-09-12
INFLUX To FIND
SINGLE ADDITION
TO D. c. SYSTEM
New Peak Enrolment Look
ed For-Resident Students
Face Transfers.
SOLUTION HANDICAPPED
BY LACK OF TEACHERS
Mrs. Doyle Stresses Need of More
Funds to Make Education
Facilities Adequate.

Public school officials, faced with
the prospect of new influx OF pupils,
In addition to the normal increase
IN school enrolment, may find 1t
necessary to sacrifice the comfort OF
Washington students to accommodate
those from nearby Maryland and Vr-
ginia.
Although no verdict will be forth
coming until some time after school
reopens week from tomorrow and
the volume of enrolment can be
tabulated, this possibility stands out
boldly today as the result of the ruling
last month by the United States Court
of Appeals that school officials may
not exclude from Washington schools
children living in Maryland and Vir-
ginia, whose parents are employed In
the District.
The enrolment is expected to ap-
proach the peak registration of last
year-10l ,800-at time when there
has been little construction of physical
facilities in the school system and
there is a shortage of teachers.
School administrators said it is i'm
possible to estimate just how many
new nonresident pupils will apply
for admission as the result of the
court decision, but a sizable increase
is expected, judging from the number
Of inquiries received at the Franklin
Administration Building.
May Force Transfers.
II the nonresident enrolment is
increased to any great extent, GER
tain schools bearing the brunt of the
nonresident pupil load might have
their boundaries altered, thus work.
ing q hardship on number of WASH
ington boys and girls by forcing them
to transfer 10 schools more distant
from their homes.
The Court of Appeals decision up
held the issuance by District Court of
. writ of mandamus ordering Supt. of
Schools Frank w. Ballou to enroll
l1-year-old Lois Jemp, Clarendon, Va.
In the Gordon Junior High School.
At the time the ruling was made As
sistant Supt. of Schools Chester w.
Holmes declared no action could be
taker until the nonresident enroll
ment could be determined, but he
suggested that school boundaries
might be altered to make it necessary
for Washington pupils living farthest
from their schools to transfer to other
schools.
The Board of Education has decided
that its responsibility in the matter
rests in accommodating nonresident
pupils in the schools nearest their
homes, but it has not determined what
steps shall be taken when school
attended by both resident and out
side students becomes overcrowded
First Assistant Supt. Robert L. Hay
cock said he felt that realignment of
boundaries might not be necessary
but that heavy enrolment might be
met by doubling up" of the classes
or placing the students on a part-time
attendance basis. This would necessi-
tate additional teachers, however.
The largest number of the approx
mately $500 non-residents in the To-
cal schools last year were in the
senior high schools, with Mckinley
bearing the brunt of the registration
In the junior high schools, Gordon
and Deal carried most of the Virginia
group, and Langley handled the ma
3ority Of the nearby Maryland pupils.
In this connection, Holmes pointed
out that Taft and Stuart Junior High
Schools will be closed to non-resi-
dents and that Langley and Elliott
Junior Highs will be substituted be-
cause they are closer to the out-of-
town students
Some of the District parents prob
ably will howl if boundary realign-
nent is made" DR.. Holmes declared,
"snd don't blame them a bit, but
we can't have classes of so in one
school and 38 in another"
Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, president
OF the Board of Education, said it SIM
ply means that we have got to have
more money TO provide adequately for
the nonresident children as well as
our own" She indicated that if the
Kemp decision had been handed down
q little earlier, some change might
have been made in the budget for 1899.
The budget calls for sl8,S59.939.
But One New Building.
The problem is made particularly
difficult because Of the fact that. while
there is considerable school building
construction under way, only one
new building wing to the Young
School-will be ready for use next
Monday. This is an eight-room ad-
dition. A l0-room addition to the
Deal Junior High is expected to be
completed in October
Additions to other buildings already
authorized, including Paul, Grimke
Lafayette and Truesdell Schools, and
. new vocational school TO replace
(See INFLUX, Page A.
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