Evening star., 1927-12-07
SCHOOL NEEDS ARE ESTIMATED
AT$12,156,13ODURING YEAR
Fund, $l58,115 Higher Than 1923 Allow
ance, Provides for IS More Teachers,
Buildings and Grounds.

ing upon the written recommendation
of the superintendent Of schools"
For the instruction and supervision
of children in the vacation schools
and Fairgrounds. and supervisors and
teachers of vacation schools and play
grounds who may also be supervisors
and teachers of day schools, $33. 900 is
recommended, which is an increase of
SO 900 For teachers retirement fund
$3.50 900 is recommended an increase
of s21, 900, of which $160,000 is for
payments to teachers and $220,000 to
be invested by the Treasurer Of the
United States.
For salaries of teachers and jani-
tors of night schools a total Of $685.
600 is recommended, which is an in
crease of $4,000 over the current ap-
preparation.
For contingent expenses Of the
night schools $4,000 is recommended.
For expenses attending the instruc-
ton of deaf and dumb persons admit
ted to the Columbia Institution for
the Deaf from the District Of Colum-
bia under contract $27,500 is recon-
mended, an incraese of $500. For
maintenance and tuition of colOred
deaf-mutes from the District in Mary
land. or some other State under con-
tract, Sc 500 is recommended, which is
an increase Of $500.
For instruction of blind children
from the District in Maryland, or some
other State under contract, $10,500 is
recommended, the same as in the cur.
rent appropriation.
$4,000 for Alien Classes.
For Americanization work and in
struction of foreigners of all ages in
hot
SO, 900, the same as for the current
fiscal year, is recommended.
For the community center depart
ment $41 900 is recommended, which
is identical with the current appro-
priation. This provides for 10 regu-
lar employees at total salary of $19,-
700 and other part-time employees at
salaries totaling $4,000, with 5000 for
materials and 81, 400 for equipment.
Under the heading of care of build
ings and grounds, $611 900, an increase
of S36, 900, is recommended for sala-
ries, including 511 positions at a total
of $57S,96 and AZ new positions at a
total of 4,160, and adjustment of jan
itors' salaries in five positions amount
ing to $1,S60.
For the care of smaller buildings
and rented rooms, including cooking,
manual training schools. total Of
$1,000 is carried, duplicating the pres
ent allowance.
For the maintenance of schools for
tubercular pupils, $4,000 is carried,
the same as in the current budget,
while the item of $4,000 for mainte-
nance of typical open-air and ungrad.
ed classes carried in the current ap.
preparations is omitted from the 1929
budget.
$4,000 for Transportation.
For transportation of pupils attend.
ing schools for tubercular pupils,
$4,000 is included, which is an increase
of 1920.
For purchase and repair Of furni-
ture, tools, machinery, material and
books and apparatus in manual train
ing classes. $85,000 is recommended,
which is an increase of $4,000.
For fuel. gas and electric light and
power, S270, 900 is recommended, which
is an increase of $4,000.
For school furniture and equipment
in nine schools, total of S94,500 is
recommended. The current appropri.
alton for furniture and equipment in
II other schools was S1S0.605. The
items carried in the present budget are
as follows: ...
Combination assembly hall and gym.
nasium, Wheatley School, $4,000:
eight-room addition. including combi.
nation assembly hall and gymnasium,
Morgan School, including repair, re-
placement and extension Of equipment
of old building. $4,000; eight-room
building, including combination as
sembly hall and gymnasium, on Grant
road, $11,100; eight-room building, in
Guiding combination assembly hall and
gymnasium. at Fourteenth and Upshur
streets, $11,100; eight-room addition,
including combination assembly hall
and gymnasium, Raymond School,
$11, 100; 16-room building, including
combination assembly hall and gym.
nasium to replace Langdon School,
$4,000; combination assembly hall
and gymnasium, Takoma School, $3,-
900; eight-room building, including
combination assembly hall and gym
nasium, to commence replacement Of
the old Bell School and the Cardoza
School, $11 100; eight-room addition.
including combination assembly hall
and gymnasium, Burrville School,
S11, 100.
For text books and school supplies
for pupils of the first eight grades,
SIPS, 900 is recommended, which Is q
decrease of $4,000.
For maintenance of kindergartens,
including not to exceed $4,000 for
furnishing and equipping three ad-
ditional kindergartens, $4,000 is
recommended.
$4,000 Garden Fund.
For utensils, material and labor for
establishment and maintenance of
school gardens. $4,000 is carried, the
same as in the current appropriation.
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specimens, technical books and for
the maintenance of laboratories in the
departments of physics, chemistry,
biology and general science in the sew
eral high and junior high schools and
normal schools, $4,000 is carried,
Identical with the current appropri.
alton.
For general repairs and improve
ments to school buildings, including
heating, plumbing. ventilation and
sanitary equipment, $529, $40 is recon-
mended.
For rent of school buildings and
grounds. storage and stock rooms, an
appropriation of $1,000 is recon-
mended, as follows:
No. 134C G street northeast. 81 $50:
Brookland NJ. +. Church. $3.50; PIP II
street northwest. $3.50: PA Franklin
street northeast. $3.50; 737-739-741
Eleventh street northeast, $1,440; $40
Sixth street southwest, $1,000: 2606
Nichols avenue southeast, S140; 500
East Capitol street. S2.16O; lots II and
15. square 2572. 5000: lots $50. SOS,
sec. SCI. part of s63 and part Of s64.
square 2SS2. $140: lot SIT. square 5203.
$40; auto shop for Abbot Vocational
School, $500.
$4,000 for Play Fund.
For purchase. installation and main
tenance of equipment for school yards
for purposes of play of pupils, $4,000
is recommended, which is an increase
of $4,000.