New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-14
$500 More on
Part Time i'm
High, Schools
Registration Shows Over
$500 in Elementary
Grades Arc Now Denied
Full Educational Rights
Refuie Prall Testimony
Ccngested Conditions and
Inadequate Facilities Arc
Laid 10 Hylan Neg.ecs

There Will be an increase OF $500
high school students or part time this
session as result Of the failure Of
ne Hylan administration to huld a
rev high school during its four years
Of Office. Tbs was the outstanding
fart yesterday III the incomplete school
registration figures. The situation in
The elementary schools is equally bad,
tie latest figures showing that the
minimum on part time will be IS, 500.
TIE full significance Of the conrested
conditions Of the schools due to the
Eylan indifference and iaefficienov is
not contained in the above figures, be-
cause there must be added to them the
figures c. double sessions. Just how
many pupils viii be on double. triple
or quadruple sessions will rot be
known fer several days, due to the
chaotic conditions that exist in some
school districts through lack of ade
duate facilities.
The figures above refute the testi-
rony OF Aiming S. Prall, president Of
the Meyer committee on Monday. when
ne declared that the part-time figures
would be $500.
sZ,569 Last June
At the close of the last term in
June tire official statistics of the Board
Of Education show there were $3.50
PUPILS on part time in the elementary
schools. There has been an increase
IN the register this week of 81 900
pupils, and to meet this increase only
$4,000 new seats are provided in the
zine new schools and two additions
provided for the first time by the Hylan
administration
The best that can be hoped from the
building program is the addition of an
ether 10000 new seats by the end Of
the year. and that IS dependent upon
he contractors completing their work.
The new schools which opened Monday
we're not completed, and in many of
them old furniture had to be Installed
to give the pupils seats. The new
schools, therefore, will barely provide
for the normal increase in the school
register, and by January the situate
will be virtually the same as it was at
the end Of June, when S2,569 pupils
we're on part time.
AT the latter date, In addition to the
part time pupils. there were also 49,
0s6 pupils on double sessions, or in
other words that number of pupils in
addition to those pupils on part time
were deprived of their full educational
rights because Of the failure of the
Aearst-Hyl Ian Tammany organization to
provide facilities for them. This num-
Der OF unfortunately handicapped chill
dren was the total out Of 781,125 chill
dren attending the elementary schools
The exact status of the high schools
at the end of June, according to the
Official figures of the Board of Educa-
ton, show that out OF q total of e.
ia students, 22,6S8 were on part time
and another 1858 were on double SEES
sion. The latter figures will be far
exceeded this term because the advance
REGISTRATION figures show that at least
$4,000 students will be enrolled in the
high schools of the city.
The real significance of the failure
Of the Hylan administration with re-
gard to the high schools is shown in
the same statistics for the last year
Of the Mitchell administration. At the
close of Mayor Mitchel's term of Office
there were 5s,063 students enrolled in
the high schools, and none OF then,