Evening star., 1955-06-15
Board 10 Ac.
On Integration
lin Montgomery
1856 and 1857
Timetable for
Schools Indicted
table for integration of

A timetable for integration OF
Montgomery county schools.
which would end all segregation
on the elementary level in 1856
and on the high school level in
1857, is expected to be adopted
next Monday night by the Board
of Education.
Adoption became almost GER
tain yesterday. when four men,
|bers of the seven-member board
sponsored a resolution to that
effect. They are Lathrop Smith,
Mrs. Helen Scharf, Mrs. Rose
Kramer and Wayne Birdsell.
Earlier, the board ratified steps
toward integration, already set
in motion by school Supt. Forbes
H. Norris.
Board Put in Control
This was done at the urging
|of Board Chairman Willard G..
McG Graw, who inserted in his
resolution a reservation that fu-
ture actions on integration shall
be reviewed and supervised. step
by step, by the School Board.
DR.. Norris, without consulting
the board, on June 3 ordered in
Itegration Of suburban elementary
schools, gave Negro high school
students a choice Of schools they
may attend this fall and ended
segregation in the junior col
legeS.
The board also voted down, 6
to i, a resolution by Harrison
C. King, calling for a halt to
all integration planning, pend
ing a review and conference with
the boards Advisory Committee
on Integration.
Eight members of the 19-
member committee. whose rec
ommendation for a 12-year
timetable for integrating schools
was discarded by the board, had
asked the board for a referen-
dunn before the fall program
goes into effect. No action was
taken on the request.
Definite Assignment Denied
Following the meeting, DR..
Norris denied that the 100 Ne
gro students from Linden School
in Silver Spring, which will be
closed this fall, will be trans
ferred to the Rollingwood School
in Chevy Chase. He said no
definite plans have been made
for distributing the Negro pupils
to nearby elementary schools.
Echoes Of the closed-door ses-
sion of the school board with the
Council last Friday sounded at
the meeting, when Mrs. Scharf
suggested the board 60 well-pre-
pared with statistics to a similar
meeting on the school budget
this Friday night.
She said the Council was
fearful" of reaction to double
sessions in schools and that this
fear lay behind the Councils re-
lluctance to approve hiring of
| 200 new teachers as requested
i by the board.
With only 140 new classrooms
due to become available this fall.
the Council felt the disparity
between the number of new
classrooms and new teachers
would encourage double sessions.
she said.
State Aid Factor Cited
She warned that reductions in
the number of classrooms will
result in cuts in State aid.
The board gave the go-ahead
signal to the projected "pilot"
school in an experiment to COM
bine a comm unity health clinic,
a public hbral and recreation
facilities with = school plant.
The pilot will be, the Rocking
Horse School on RanG5iph road.
The plans were sent to the
County Council for approval.
Also approved by the board
was a report by Wylie Barrow
calling for payment of $4,000
lin fees to Mcleod & Ferrara,
ARCHITECTS, for work on the new
Wheaton Junior High School.
The figure represented $4,000
LESS than the original bill pre-
lsented by the architects, who
protested several weeks ago
THAT supervisors and department
heads in the school administra-
tion had suggested so many
changes that their original plans
were extensively and frequently
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