School Superintendent Carol S. Parham has approved the most radical idea in a countywide redistricting committee's proposal, building small additions onto overcrowded schools.
But she rejected nine other elements that are key to the plan.
Dr. Parham is to formally present her recommendations to the school board at its 10 a.m. meeting tomorrow at school headquarters on Riva Road.
The eight-member board has until January to decide what, if any, version of a redistricting plan will be made available for public hearings.
The idea Dr. Parham liked, building small wings onto Crofton Middle School and Crofton, Davidsonville and Windsor Farm elementary schools would save the expense of building new elementary schools or building bigger additions to those schools and being required by the state to renovate the buildings at the same time.
Instead of making a separate report, Dr. Parham simply went down the redistricting committee's list, putting check marks by choices she approved of, and "x" marks over proposals she didn't like.
Dr. Parham rejected the committee's proposal to move the Learning Center, a school for students with behavioral problems housed at Adams Park Elementary School in Annapolis, to an old building the school system owns in Point Pleasant.
She offered no alternative, even though the board has promised to move the Learning Center and re-open Adams Park as a neighborhood elementary school by 1997.
Dr. Parham said she would recommend a new site at "a future date."
Dr. Parham also rejected the idea of a new Piney Orchard Elementary School, one of five new elementary schools the committee said should be built, moving the Phoenix Center out of Chesapeake Bay Middle School to Brooklyn Park in the fall of 1995; shifting students from the Fox Chase neighborhood from Rippling Woods Elementary to Woodside Elementary, and relocating the parent and infant/toddler program from Woodside Elementary to Andover Middle School.
She recommended building a wing of four classrooms at Freetown Elementary, rather than place portable classrooms at the school, and a new building, rather than an addition, at McArthur Middle School, and rejected a plan to have West County students from the same neighborhoods attend grades kindergarten through two at Meade Elementary and three through five at Van Bokkelen Elementary.
More than 3,100 students would change schools under the 12-member Countywide Redistricting Committee's original proposal.
It could not be determined yesterday how many students would shift based on Dr. Parham's recommendations.
The committee's proposal would realign school attendance boundaries in nine "feeder systems": Annapolis, Arundel, Broadneck, Chesapeake, Glen Burnie, Northeast, Meade, Severna Park and Old Mill.
No students would be affected in the North County, South River or Southern feeder systems under the committee's redistricting proposal.
The earliest any redistricting plan could take effect is next September.