Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1929-01-04
Legislation For Additional School
Needs Contemplated.

In addition to authorizing bond issue
of more than 100000 to take care of
emergency public school construction in the
county. to which legislation the county's
legislators pledged themselves before the
building program was launched, the Leeis-
lature. which met last Wednesday, will
be asked to authorize a bond issue for
rather extensive school building operations.
Prof Edwin w. Broome. county supern-
tendent of schools. has been studying the
situation, with view to submitting sug-
gestions to the county board of education
and the county commissioners, and as a
result of the survey, based largely on the
recent census taken by the public school
teachers and on information gathered in
other ways, has prepared a statement of
school needs. A copy of the statement
has been sent to each county commissioner
and each member Of the county board of
education.
According to Prof. Broome's survey. the
Bethesda-C Chevy Chase High School needs
laboratory rooms for senior high school
sciences. rooms for the commercial depart
ment and rooms for the shops for boys.
the estimated cost of which would be $685.
$50, six class rooms, two of which fol
probable use as a study hall, to be added to
the auditorium-gy gymnasium building, to
cost approximately SAT 200. and to COM
plete the entire plant unit to contain
domestic science rooms and probably ten
class rooms, to cost around $65,000.
The needs of the Chevy Chase Elemen-
tary School were found by Prof. Broome to
include the erection of new building. as.
building cannot be added to. The first
unit Of such building would cost approx
mately $86,888, and the second unit.
which would complete the structure. would
mean an expenditure Of something like
$l27,096. The site upon which an option
has already been obtained, would cost
$500.
A second story will have to be added to
the Glen Echo-Cabin John Junior High
School and Elementary School. This will
add six class rooms. to cost about $29, 500.
The East Silver Spring Elementary School
needs second story to provide six more
class rooms, costing something like $780,
500.
Enlargement of the assembly hall and
the addition Of one elementary room should
be provided for the SANDY Spring High
School, according to the statement, the
cost of which would be $4,000; new
two-room building, to cost $1,000, is sug-
eested for Washington Grove. as is three
room building, to cost $4,000, at Coles
vile. and SIS, 500 should be provided for
new colored school buildings. The report
suggests acquisition of advance" sites for
an elementary school at Alta Vista, ele-
mentary school in the Chevy Chase Lake
neighborhood and separate senior high
school for the Takoma Park-Silver Spring
community. the three sites to cost around
$50.0OU.
THE Rockville primary rooms are per-
haps the poorest schoolrooms in the coun-
ty." states the report. but there is a
hopeful possibility Of plan for the i'm
provement of the old Academy Building
for the primary grades through the Coop
GRAFTON of the Academy trustees"
Definite action on Prof. Broome's sueges-
tons is expected to be taken at the next
meeting of the board Of education. and
the new building program will. it is under
stood, be ready for consideration of the
Legislature early in the session.