New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-07
Hylan Fails to
Seat Pupils as
Schools Open
90, 900 of Them Are Denied
Full Facilities. Through
Mayors Indifference and
the Bickering of Boards
Delay Building Program
Only 15,l99 Places Made
Since June and 1920
i'm Entire FOur-Year Rule

The parents of school children will
be confronted with a serious situation
during the next three days. when they
register their children for admission
or transfer in the public schools. Vir-
tually one-fourth of the children will
be deprived of proper educational IA
cilities through the Indifference toward
the schools displayed by the Hearst
Hylan- -Tammany administration during
the last four years.
At the time the damaging report
upon forty of the city's schools was
made public by the Associated Wo-
mems Clubs in June Mayor Hylan, in
order to stife the criticism of his
regime, made fat statement that the
new schools opening in September
would provide 10000 new sittings for
pupils.
The official report of c. B. j. Snyder,
Superintendent of School Buildings,
shows that nine new schools and three
additions will open their doors, with
a capacity Of $3.50 new seats In this
case the Mayor has kept just so per
cent of his promise made last June.
An investigation into the building
program of the administration shows
that these new schools and additions
are the first completed during the en-
tire four years of the Hylan admin
lStratioD- with the exception of Public
School 8, in Richmond, little eleven
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1917, and another in Queens during the
same year.
500 Seats Removed
These two. together with few
rented additions, bring the total of new
sittings provided by Hylan in four
years to 1929. From this total must
be deducted 500 seats which were re.
moved to make way for workshops in
classrooms that were condemned be-
cause Of bad lighting facilities.
This is the total result of four years
effort on the part of Mayor Hylan to
fulfill his campaign promise of "A seat
in school for every child In the mean
time, as a result of the failure to pro-
vide any new schools during the first
three years of his administration
Mayor Hylan is responsible for the
growth of part time pupils from 10000
to 10000.
The statistics of the Board OF Edu-
cation show that during the Mitchell ad-
ministration the new schools con-
structed provided $4,000 new seats, al
most two and half times as many as
provided by Mayor Hylan. From this
total, however, must be deducted q de-
crease of 5000 seats through the con-
version of dark classrooms into work
shops. This reduction, however, leaves
a total net gain for the Mitchell adj
ministration of $4,000 new seats, con-
siderably more than twice as many as
were provided in four years by Mayor
Hylan, who promised seat for every
child
Much of the promised new construc-
tion which Mayor Hylan boasted about
in June still is on paper, it was learned
yesterday. This is directly due to two
causes: First, the continuous pickering
between the Board of Education and
the Board of Estimate, and second, the
failure of the administration to pro-
vide adequate quarters for the drafting
forces of the Superintendent of School
Buildings.
The latter in his latest semi-yearly
report regarding the 1921 building pro-
gram, which provides for nine new
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