Evening star., 1955-05-20

pupils who were granted excep-
tions from the new integrated
boundaries as hardship cases
this school year also are slated
for transfer to integrated schools
next fall, unless a special COM
mittee grants them an extension.
School board policy permits
such exceptions for health or
other "necessitous" reasons.
Some hardship" pupils al
ready have reapplied for exten-
sions. DR.. Corning said.
Much Shifting Due
Considerable shutting of pu-
pills is scheduled under the
boundary revamping. which in
wolves IS grade schools as well
as some junior and senior highs.
officials disclosed.
Supt. Corning told the School
Board Wednesday most of the
planned reshuff1ing is intended
to relieve crowding, equalize en-
rollments or end traffic hazards.
The school system last fall
ruled that children who found
themselves living outside new
racial zones could ask for
transfer to the proper school.
Such pupils also have the OPP
ton of staying where they are
until graduation or promotion to
a higher level. except where
there is crowding.
Many transfer requests made
under this option plan weren't
granted for space reasons.
officials have not disclosed
exactly how many of the op-
ton transfers remain to be car
ried out. Assistant Supt. Edith
A. Lyons said, however, that
many of the 1900 are in this
category.
Some Schools Affected.
One school slated to receive a
number of such transferees is
Emery, at Lincoln road and S
street NE. Emery, formerly in
the white division. is scheduled
to have a temporary annex built
this summer, and among the
pupils to move in are SO from
Gage, formerly in the colored
division. Gage also is sending
96 pupils to Mott and 10 to Cook
and LangSton Schools.
Raymond School is to receive
al students from Powell, and
H. D. Cooke is being allotted 70
now at Harrison.
Draper School, where an ad-
dition is being built. is to take
155 pupils now at Simon. An
other large-scale shift is in con-
nection with the opening in
September of the new Moten
School, Stanton and Elvans
roads Sc, which will get AZ
pupils from Garfield, 800 from
Birney and 8 from Stanton.
One of the biggest shifts under
the new boundary setup occurred
yesterday. when more than 700
children moved from Richardson
School to the new Shadd, at
Fifty-sixth and East Capitol
streets, ending Richardson part
time classes. Shadd and Rich
ardson will both receive new
transferees next fall, including a
group of IS from Merritt.
To Send Pupils to 5 Schools
Thomson School, at Twelfth
and L streets NV, also is fig
uring in the shuffling. 1t will
send pupils to Garrison, ,Grimke
Cleveland, Seaton and Sumner
Schools.
Among other shifts, Monroe
will send At pupils to Mott and
33 to Park View. j. F. Cook will
send 25 to Gage, Garrison will
exchange a number of pupils
with Harrison. Bryan will send
a number to Payne and Buchan-
an, and Emery will send "a to
Noyes.
The school board voted
Wednesday to close Phillips
School, near Twenty eighth
street NV. and disperse its
pupils to Jackson, Hyde and
Stevens. Complaints that Stev-
ems is a fire-trap are to be in.
vestigated first, however.
The present transfer plans are
tentative and may be altered
when actual school organiza-
tions get under way next fall
Miss Lyons pointed out.
No students already in senior
and junior high schools will have
to move because of the boundary
changes. Some pupils being pro.
NOTED this spring will enter g
different school in the fall be.
cause of the changes. however.
These include 13 who will enter
Roosevelt instead of Mckinley
So who will enter Anacostia in
stead of Eastern, about Is whit
will go to Langley instead O.
Taft and Is who will enroll al
Kramer instead of Douglass.