Evening star., 1923-10-12
.S12,O0,O)O SCHOOL
BUILDING PROJECT
READY FOR BUDGET
Five-Year Program, Framed
at Conference, to Be Sub
mitted Tomorrow.

A five-year school building program
calling for the appropriation of ap-
proximately s12,Oo0.O00, and designed
to eliminate all OF the present OBJ
jectionable features in the school sys-
tenn, will be submitted to the budget
bureau tomorrow morning by school
authorities. The program was framed
last night at special conference of
the board of education and school Of
fcials in the Franklin school.
Budget bureau officials requested
school authorities several weeks ago
to frame such a program, and prom
ised to give lit serious consideration
In connection with the hearings on
the District estimates for the next
fiscal year which will get under way
tomorrow. SApt. Frank w. Ballou,
and Garnet G.. Wilkinson and meip-
bers Of the school board will be pres
cnt at the hearings.
AboIishes All Portables.
The five-year program, it is-under-
stood, calls for the abolition In this
perfoc of all Of the one-room port
ables, rented and other undesirable
accornmo dations now in use. the eiin-
ination of all part-time and oversize
classes and the purchase of availa BILE
school sites in advance OF their use.
The program. if carried out, would
put the Washington school system
ION it's feet" literally speaking.
The program urges strongly the
acquisition as soon as possible OF all
property which in future years will
be the site of proposed schoolhouse.
For several years the school authori-
ties have recommended the adoption
Of far-sighted policy with regard to
the purchase Of school sites before
rapid development makes this i'm
possible.
: The estimates for several years have
carried items for the purchase Of q
number Of school sites for early use,
and each time they were stricken out
of the appropriation bill. These sites,
anxious to acquire, follow:
An appropriation of, $4,000 for ad-
ditional land in the vicinity of the
Ludlow School; $4,000 for a site for
southwest section Of the city; 5000
for site for new junior high school
In the northeast section; $4,000 for a
site in the vicinity of the Brightwood
School to replace the Brightwood
Rittenhouse streets and $4,000 for a
site for: new school north of
Webster street and east of Georgia
avenue.
The school budget also has carried
items for the purchase of number
of playground sites adjoining school
buildings which probably will be pro-
vided in the .f1ye-year program. These
play sites are wanted at, the follow
ing schools:
PctwOrtlI, Langdon, Eckington
Payne, Burrville, Jackson. Addison,
Simmons. Benning,i Banneker. Bruce,
Cranch, Wormley, Birney, Park View,
Monroe. Wheatley and Bradley.
The five-year program was drafted
by Supt. Ballou, with the aid of En-
gineer Commissioner J. Franklin Bell
and Assistant Engineer, Commissioners
John Z. Wood. These two District
government officials recently COM
pieted survey showing the possible
growth OF the District by communi-
ties within the next twenty years
and indicating where additional school
facilities probably will be needed.
Awaiting Presentation.
School officials and members of the
school board declined today to dis
cuss the new building program until
it has been presented to the budget
bureau. Those who attended the con-
ference at the Franklin School last
night and studied the program .in-
cluded Supt. Ballou, Assistant Supt.
Wilkinson, Daniel j. Callahan, presi-
dent of the school board, and the fol-
loving members of the board; Err
nest Greenwood. Mrs. Howard L.
Hodgkins and Mrs. Raymond b. Nor