Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-04-04
BOARD OF EDUCATION
MEETING HELD AT FRANKLIN
BUILDING LAST EVENING.
Action Taken to Prohibit Payments
of Extra Compensation to school
Employ Business.
Action TAX

The board of education met at the Frank
lin building last evening and transacted
considerable routine business. In order to
correct practice of paying certain en-
plcyeS extra compensation for work held
to be part of their regular duties the board
passed a resolution prohibiting the pay
ment of extra compensation to employees
of the public schools except by express
authority of the board.
Permission was granted the Teachers
Aid and Annuity Association to give an
exhibition of the school work which will
be displayed at the Pan-American EXPOSE
ton. The exhibit will be made by means
of the biograph, illustrating the work in
the manual training and other departments
of school work. and by means of the pho
nograph through which Rotations will be
reproduced. Experts have been at work
with the monograph and biograph in the
schools for week or past and the eX
hihit is now complete. The exhibition of
this work by the Teachers Aid and An
nuity Association will probably take place
in few days.
Naming School Buildings.
1t was announced that the Ditrct Com
missioners had been requested to name the
new school building on Washington Heights
the Morgan school. in honor of the former
Commissioner of the District, and that the
next new building erected for the colored
school be given the name of the Langston
school, in honor of the late John NJ. Lang
Ston.
At the suggestion of Mrs. West the pres
ident of the board will prepare biographi-
cal sketches of the persons in honor of
whom the schools of the District were
named These sketches will, according to
her plan. be printed and posted in the
schools bearing the name of the respective
men.
The resignation of Miss Julia Ball.
teacher in the second grade at the Brent
school, was accepted. Miss Agnes B. Hess
Ter was appointed teacher of the first grade
at that school, and the present teacher of
the first grade was advanced to fill the va
capcy in the second grade.
James Hanrahan was appointed janitor
of the Blair school. to fill the vacancy
caused by the transfer of the present jan
itor to the Harrison school. jeremiah
Brown was appointed janitor of the Bunker
Hill road colored school, near BroOkland,
to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna-
ton of the former janitor, Wright Hinton.
On motion of DR.. Kingsman it was de-
cided that the opening of various school
buildings under construction be marked by
appropriate ceremonies
On invitation of Franklin w. Smith, GU
rator of the Halls of the Ancients, the
board decided to visit that institution next
"Wednesday evening after it's meeting.
Adverse Action.
Inc Doard TOOK adverse action on COM
nunication from the Lincoln Emancipation
League asking that the Colored High
School Cadet Battalion be permitted to
parade with the league and other organiZa-
tions on emancipation day If the cadets so
desired.
The board also denied the request OF
Mrs. Annie E. Murray for the use of a
school room in the Sumner building for the
purpose of holding an examination of Pupils
of the kindergarten with which she is
connected.
The committee on text books recommend
ed that the use of the Merrill reader be
extended TO cover all the grades from the
first to the eighth. The reader will be
studied in connection with Stepping Stones
to Literature the introduction of which
was recently authorized. The Merrill
readers will supersede the Franklin and
Normal readers in the higher grades.
Preparations are already being made for
the vacation school to be conducted by
Mr.. Riordan at the Greenleaf building dur
ing the summer months. Congress has APP
propriated $1,000 for this school.