Evening star., 1945-04-25
Prince Georges
12.Year School
Plan Launched
CoIored Ones First
To Be Recognized
Under New System

Colored schools in Prince Georges
County will be reorganized, begin
ming next fall, as the first step in
the establishment of a 12-year
school system throughout the
county.
In announcing plans yesterday
for the reorganization, School Supt.
G.. Gardner Shugart said a similar
program is being studied for white
schools. He said colored schools
will be affected first because Of the
smaller number of pupils involved.
To facilitate the change, in which
seventh and eighth grade colored
students will receive an extra year
of high school instruction, the fol-
lowing pupil transfers will be made:
The Cedarville Elementary School
will be made a seventh-grade center
for students from the Westwood,
Poplar Hill. Brandywine, Aquasco
and TB Schools.
Will Transfer Pupils.
Seventh-grade pupils from the
Sharpersville, Chapel Hill, Camp
Springs and Danville Schools will
attend the Oxon Hill Elementary
School.
The Lincoln Elementary School
will receive seventh-grade pupils
from the Bowie, Fethertown and
Bowie Demonstration Schools.
The James B. Douglass High
School will be designated a seventh
grade center for pupils from the
Groom Station, Holly Grove, Groom,
Mount Nebo, Collington, Mitchell
vile, Oak Grove, Clinton, Rosary
vile and Forestville Schools.
The Lakeland High School will
be a seventh-grade center for the
jAmmendale, Muirkirk, Bladensburg,
Laurel, Brentwood and Lakeland
Elementary Schools.
Others to Transfer.
Seventh-grade pupils from the
Fairmount Heights, Dupont Heights,
Ridgely, Capitol Heights and Glen
arden Schools will attend the High
land Park High School.
In addition, the County Board of
Education approved the closing of
the Danville and SharperSville
Schools and the transfer of the pu-
pills from the first six grades to the
Chapel Hill and IB Schools. The
Brown School also was ordered
closed and pupils there transferred
to the Ridgely School.
Mr.. Shugart said the proposed
new system, calling for six years of
elementary school and six of high
school, instead of seven and four,
respectively. as at present, will re-
quire the employment OF one addi-
tional elementary teacher and six
additional high school instructors.
Approximately 300 pupils will be af-
fected by the new program, which |
will be temporary pending construc-
ton Of new schools, Mr.. Shugart
emphasized. -, !
IS Oppose School Sale.
The board also ordered its attor-
ney , Adrian Fisher, to file an ex-
cept4on to the sale Of the Colmar
me1lO1 0SllOOl 1cSt aplA w VIC eoNA
at a tax sale.
The action was taken after Mr..
Fisher said the property had been
bought in" by the town because OF
alleged delinquent street assess
ments.
Last month Mayor John N. Tor
vestad of Colmar Manor announced
the town has filed suit in Prince
Georges County Circuit Court to
establish a tax lien on the school
because of the Board of Education S
refusal to pay $2,498.42 for street
assessments in front of the school.
A delegation from the County
tuberculosis Association offered to
pay the salary of supervisor of
health education to be employed by
the board. No definite amount was
specified in the offer. The board
took the matter under adviSement,