Fresh Faces in High Places; School Year Opens With 55 New Principals
Timothy Jones happily bid his freshman year farewell and reveled in the fact that he no longer would be a member of the youngest high school class.</br></br>But when Timothy, 15, becomes a sophomore next week , he'll relive one of the hardest parts of freshman year: being the new kid in school. Last week , Timothy registered at Northwestern High in Hyattsville after transferring out of a high school in the District.</br></br>"I'm just really looking forward to doing better than how I was doing in D.C. schools," the Hyattsville resident said. "I really want to start off good."</br></br>Timothy won't be the only new kid on the block when classes resume, nor will any of the other new students spilling into the county's nearly 200 schools.</br></br>Many of the new faces appearing in Prince George's schools will belong to adults: about 55 new principals, 45 new vice principals and 850 new teachers. There will also be a new crop of central office administrators, the result of schools chief Andre J. Hornsby's reshuffling of his management structure.