San Diego

The San Diego Board of Education approved a long-range master plan Tuesday, and the first results will be double sessions for kindergarten at 28 additional schools and year-round schooling at Jerabek Elementary School in Scripps Ranch beginning next summer.

The plan, almost two years in the making, identifies an enrollment crunch even as it calls for more than $140 million in school construction between 1986 and the year 2000. It earmarks an equal sum for maintenance and rehabilitation.

Adopted as suggested by the San Diego Unified School District’s staff, the plan indicates that revenue will be far less than needed to complete all the recommendations. Among other early implementations: By September, 1989, an additional 24 schools will go on multi-track, year-round schooling, in which children attend school for nine weeks at a time, then have three weeks off. Three groups of children are in session at any one time, and a fourth group is on vacation. The new scheduling enables a school to expand its capacity by 50%.