Evening star., 1927-05-20
FUND OF S15,431,943
SOUGHT FOR 192S-29
BY SCHOOL BOARD
Commissioners Get Budget,
Showing Slight Drop from
1926 Request.
NEED FOR ADDITIONAL
TEACHERS AGAIN CITED
$4,791,9C0 Asked to Provide Items
in Five Year Program-Repair
Provisions Greater.

Estimates for the needs of the pub
lie school system and carrying on OF
the five-year school building program
during the fiscal year of 192S29.
totaiing J,431 ,943. were transmitted
to the District Commissioners early
this afternoon by the Board of Educa-
tion. The estimates are slightly less
than those for the fiscal year of 1927
IS. which aggregated $15,135.1S6, and
So, ,433,92S more than the $l1,99S,015
actually appropriated by Congress last
session.
The estimates reveal that the
Board of Education and DR.. Frank
w. Ballou. superintendent of schools.
still feel they need the additional
teachers which they requested last
year, but which were eliminated by
the House District appropriations
subcommittee, whose members were
confused by erroneous information
furnished them from outside sources.
Sl5.7OO For New Teachers.
An item of $45.7O0 is carried in the
estimates for the needed additional
teachers. DIR. Ballou explains that
while "a additional teachers were
asked for last year. only about so ad.
ditiOual teachers are requested at this
time, due to the fact that the Gordon
and Garnet Junior High Schools,
which were scheduled for opening dur
ing the next fiscal year. will not be
ready during that time.
A total of S4.79l 900 is asked for in
the estimates to cover items in the
five-year program. This sum is au.
proximately $4,000, 900 greater than
the $2.794,250 actually allowed for the
program in the last school appropri.
alton.
1t is noted that the estimates in
clude items of S499 .402, which would
be necessary to carry out school build
ing improvements recommended by
the Health Department, and SIS, $50 to
carry out improvements recommended
by the Fire Department. These items
are in addition to the usual item to
cover repairs and improvements to
buildings and grounds, which amounts
to $564,775 in the current estimates.
or Sl4,775 more than the item in the
| preceding estimates
Increases are carried in all but 12
of the items included in the estimates.
A ma ior reason. however, why the
estimates are slightly lower than they
were last year is that last year an
| item of 100000 was carried for fire.
proof curtains at the Central and Dun.
bar High Schools. Another sizable
decrease is in the estimate for text
| books and supplies, which drops from
Sl75, 900 last year TO S125 900 for 1929.
American. community center. night
and vacation schools will be carried
on the same high plane as in the past.
Increases in the estimates are carried
in all three of these items.
Carries Salary Increase.
An increase of S326,379 is carried
for salaries of teachers and librarians,
due to the increased salaries author
lied. The appropriation during The
fiscal year 1928 was S5.662 $40.
while the appropriation in the cur
rent estimates is S5,9S9.019
Needed additional salaries for en-
ployes in the department of school at.
tendance and work permits is carried
in the estimates. The estimate for
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