                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Tuesday, September 6, 1994             TAG: 9409060083
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
                                             LENGTH: Short :   19 lines

GETTING READY FOR CLASS

ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by JIMMY WALKER/

Julia Burke, a first-grade teacher at Highland-Baltimore Elementary

School in Portsmouth, fills out name tags for her students and gets

her classroom ready for Wednesday's opening. School starts today in

Suffolk, Franklin and Southampton and Isle of Wight counties. In

Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth and Virginia Beach, school starts

Wednesday.

by CNB