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“Education”
In Virginia
According to information from some of the counties throughout the Old Dominion school facilities are on the increase. Consequently the growth of the counties is inevitable, for with better schools more business will enter these counties, furnishing better means of livelihood for the high school graduates. *
In the Tidewater area, prefabricated school buildings allowed 4,200 pupils to go to school all day last year, instead of in shifts. The local boards took a chance on a new development in the construction industry . . and the chance seems to ibe paying off.
Since the Fall of 1953, 138 desperately needed classrooms have been built in the Tidewater area under the pre-fab idea, at a cost of from $4,500 to $6,000 apiece. The buildings require only 45 to 6*0 days to complete. Norfolk County pioneered in the effort, with an eight-room addition to its Pineridge School that was started on October 10, 1953. The addition consisted of two steel buildings, erected side by side, with a 12-foot corridor running between. The total cost was $44,000, compared with $135,000 for a six-room addition of conventional masonry al^ a nearby school.
The result of the experiment was that the addition was open for the youngsters after Christinas vacations. The construction took a little more than two months.
In Buckingham County two major school projects: One is a $350,000 Negro high school; the other is a $250,000 white elementary school. .
Nelson County is spending $600,000 for a consolidated high school to replace the secondary schools.
Madison County has a school project for a $500,000 white high school.
Greene County officials are preparing to ask bids for a new Ne
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