Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-16
SCHOOL BOARD
NEARS DEADLOCK
MEMBERS CANNOT AGREE ON
SUPERINTENDENT
Proposed site for New Building Rented
as Barley Field--Msny schoI.
srs Unable TO Find
Accommodations

Another meeting Of the school board
closed yesterday noon without any ac-
tion being taken on the successor OF
Prof. James A. Foshay, as superintend-
ent of city schools owing to the fact
that all of the seven members Of the
board, with one exception, have to
agree to the appointment of any man
before he can be chosen. there is q
situation approaching that Of q dead
lock.
Bids for the school bonds will be
opened soon, and after that is done the
construction of new school buildings
will rapidly proceed.
But in the meantime the members
of the school board ere said to be at
tempting to increase the school fund
by renting out the different school
sites for barley fields.
With the bids within a few days OF
being opened for sale and the work Of
building the new houses nearly at
hand the fine school site at Stephenson
and Euclid avenues upon which ten
room building was to have been
erected, has been rented for use as a
barley field.
Many Children Out of School
In the meantime about half of the
little ones of the entire Boyle Heights
district are running about the streets
or attending school on the half day
session plan, while the First street
school works overtime and the parents
beg for a new building
The site Is rented until July 20. The
building was one of the first to be
mentioned when the proposed new
buildings were taken under eonsidera-
ton.
Tennis courts, croquet grounds and a
knitting lawn have been suggested and
may be acted upon at the next meet
ing.
The report of the teachers COM
mittee to the board of education yes
terday was as follows:
G That the resignation of M. Ella
Hand be accepted.
(2) That the following be elected as
substitute teachers in Sprimary and
grammar grades: Alice e. Craig,
Blanche Bradshaw, Cora S. Ball, Kath-
arine Pownal, Candyce Rice, Mary C..
Schmierer, Nellie Bennett, Ida M.
Dave, Julia Hook, Nettie M. Hartsall,
Lena A. Ely.
go That the following be transfer
red from substitute to regular list Of
teachers: Geraldine Parry, May Hasar.
(Q That the following transfers and
assignments be made: Edith Bell to
Seventh street school; Margaret James,
from Sentous street school to Grand
| avenue school; Carrie A. Nudge, from
Thirty-ninth street to Sentous street:
| Eunice Kirkpatrick, from First street
| to Hoover street; Julia X. Holmes,
Hoover street; Ermal Lea, First street;
Cora S. Ball, Twenty-eighth street;
Belle Mahan, from Vernon avenue to
! First street; Eva e. Stone, from
Amelia street to Vernon avenue; Rose
I. McMullen, Amelia; Mabel Haywood.
| Custer avenue; Katharine Schmitt,
| Thirty-ninth street; Katharine Pownal.
Ninth street,. Candyce Rice, Seventh
street, Leah Bletso. Twenty-eighth
street, Mary f. Putnam, from Hewitt,
street to Polytechnic high school;
Elizabeth Meyerl, from Alpine street to-
|. Polytechnic; Charlotte Smythe, from
Fremont avenue to Polytechnic; Theo.
Fulton, Fremont avenue; Mabel A,
Richardson, Alpine street; Mary G.
Schmierer, Hewitt street. Jean Nc
! Keand, two days per week, Ninth
street.