New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-10-16
317,33 Pupils
On art Time or
Double Session
fiylan Assertion He Has Civ
en- Best School Admins
tration in History Of City
Refuted by Nudd' Figures
Fire Hazard increases
Overcrowding of Classes l.
Shown to Have Serious
ly Harnpered Teachers

There are 3l7,517 school children Oh
part time or double session instruction
in the public schools of the city. ac-
cording to statement issued yesser-
day by Howard W. Nudd, director of
the Public Education Association. The
statement was issued in reply 70 the
| speech made by Mayor Hylan unen lie
he appeared at Public School I, in the
Bronx, OF Thursday night
"lhe Mayor rnaintaina" the state
nlent reads, that those who have crit
icized his record in respect 10 the
schools are actuated By the desire TO
train children for the mill and the
factory on the assumption that 'taere
viii be nobody to wieid the pick and
shovel if everybody is h:gAly educated
Hylan's Reply Awaited
Which is better calculated 10 train
children for the mill and factory and
to force them to WELD the pick and
shovel, our constant demand that these
evils shall be corrected or his com
placent insistence that this paIt-edu-
cation is not serious nor widespread
and that re has given the best admin
istration of the schools in the history
Of New York ~
After citing the fact that there are
3lT,377 children out Of 9OC 900 on part
time or double sessions, the statement
continues:
an addition to this dep,orable sta
alton more than 100000 children, or
two-thiTds Ct the entire register. are
in diversified classes, classes having
forty or more pupils 70 Z teacher. O1
these more than quarter Of d million
are in classes OF forty-f7e Or more
snd moro than $4,000 in classes Of
fifty Or more. Congestion in the schoo!
lnanfests itself in one OF two ways
eieher through pant tigoe or Makeshift
couble sessions. or through Increasing
the number Of pupils to teacher.
f,itLei plan is disastrous TO efic:enc
put the latter, particularly, rlaces an
undue burden upon the teachers md
creates serious ire hazard.
Failure of Administration
IN tne matter Of new sittings to
ord Of the Hylan administration to
date compares very unfgvorabiy with
that OF his predecessor. During the
Mitchell administration $4,000 sittinos
We're provided Up TO the opening Of
schools this September only t,2O0 nov
sitt;ngs were provided by Hylan. On
tie opening day of school an add-
tional $4,000 were provided with many
fourishes AID rufles. which, however.
made the Hylan reco~i to date lose
nan nai: as good as his predecessors s.
Moreover. most of these new sittings
we're paid fo- out of the sl1.25u .O0o
ha'a at the close OF the Mitche! a.
m.nistration''
Abraham Lefkowiwtz, vice presidea
q tie American Federation Of Teach
ers, wno IS the Farmer-Labor caadi-
date for President o. the Boarl O. Al
dernlen, yesterday attacked the record
of the Hylan administration in connec-
ton with Is attitude Of Indifference
toward the schools. He declared that
The .Hy.an administration had constant.
ly hampered the professional authori-
ties IN .Ae control Of the schools, and
that tae only solution was an elected
Board Of Education financially inde-
pendent of the Board o. Estimate.