Evening star., 1928-10-18
BOARD APPROVES
SCHOOL FINDINGS
Adopts Committee Report
Indorsing Four Suggestions
of Efficiency Bureau.

Declaring that in its report made last
year the Bureau of Efficiency indorsed
in general the practice Of the Board
of Education and the boards finance
committee in matters pertaining to the
school building program, the Board OF
Education, meeting yesterday, expressed
agreement with one Of the efficiency
bureaus seven recommendations. ad-
mitted failure to fulfill a second be-
cause the 1929 appropriations had been
cut too low, failed to see justification
for a third and Endorsed the remaining
four.
The boards action on the Bureau of
Efficiency's recommendations was car
ried in its adoption of a report made
by the finance committee and present.
ed by Isaac Cans, chairman, In ac-
cordance with the boards instruction
that that committee consider the rec
concentrations for report.
The first mendation-that new
schools should be erected in accordance
with needs as indicated by the various
evidences of congestion in their dis
tricts"-was agreed with by the board
through its adoption of its committee
report. The committee set forth that
''it has been the uniform policy of the
committee to undertake to secure ap-
preparations for buildings and grounds
in those sections of the city where
needs were most pressing"
Asks Site Item Inclusion.
The second recommendation, and
that which the board admitted failure
to fulfill, suggested that "the appro-
priations for 1929 should include the
majority of the site items In the Ave.
year building program If SchoolhouSe
fN ha Hao
dicapped during the fiscal year, $780,"
In Its action yesterday the board
blamed failure of its 1929 estimates to
be honored in the appropriations for Its
inability to carry out the course ex-
pressed in this recommendation,
The Board Of Education" I" the adopt.
cd report declares, ION recommendation
of the finance committee, prepared esti-
mates for the school budget of 1929, in
accordance with this general recon-
mendation. Despite that fact, how
ever, the appropriations act for 1929, as
1t passed Congress, contained appropria-
tionS for only two specific items and a
general authorization for the expendi-
ture OF approximately 100000 addi-
tional for any sites carried in the five.
year program. The finance commit
tee regrets to report that its efforts to
carry out this recommendation of the
Bureau of Efficiency have not been
successful"
Committees Unjustified.
The efficiency bureaus recommends
ton that "two committees should be
appointed by the superintendent of
schools, one for elementary schools and
one for junior high schools, to make a
continuous study of building facilities
as they relate 10 educational needs"
was found to be without justification
by the school board. In its report as
adopted by the entire board, the finance
committee declared that each year Dr.
Frank w. Ballou, superintendent of
schools, asks each supervising princi-
pal and each principal of the senior
and junior high schools for a report
on the needs of additional school facili-
ties under their respective jurisdictions.
The cooperative action which the
Bureau of Efficiency recommended by
inference in its report, the board agreed
yesterday, is provided for by DR.. Ballou's