Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-21
ASK CIVIC GROUPS
TO BOARD MEETING
School Body Will Hold Annual
Conference With Associa-
tons April II.

The Board of Education will call Its
annual meeting with representatives OF
the Districts civic groups to discuss the
school needs of the various communities
Wednesday, April II, 1t was decided at
its regular session in the Franklin Ad-
l1iinistration Building yesterday after
noon.
Invitations to the citizens asSocia-
lions and trade bodies will be dis
patched by the school board this week
so that the organizations may appoint
representatives to present their views on
the educational system needs to be pro-
vided for in the 1881 budget at the
meeting. In accordance with its usual
practice, the board will call similar
meeting with the citizens next Fall,
when it reports back to them on the
status of the requests made by them
ut the Spring session.
The board also agreed to meet In
executive session Wednesday, March q,
to discuss in detail the plan by which
it proposes to proceed in the licensing
of institutions which grant degrees
within the District of Columbia in ac-
cordance with the enactment in the
past session of Congress of the diploma
mill bill
Pass on Institutions.
The bill authorizes the District Board
of Education to pass Judgment on the
institutions which apply to it for
licenses to operate here. Until yeSter-
days meeting, however, the board had
not undertaken to consider just how it
will operate in its new capacity.
DR.. Charles r. Carusi president OF
the board, told his associates yesterday
that, as he interprets the measure, the
Board of Education will be called upon
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grant degrees within the District, even
though they may be located elsewhere.
The method of coping with the CORE
spondence schools will be thrashed out
at the coming session, he indicated.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools, informed the board that 40
applications for the new position of
business manager of the schools had
been received, and that following con-
ferences with the Board of District
Commissioners, he planned to submit
recommendations to the board for the
appointment.
Personnel Changes.
The buildings, grounds and equip
nent committee reported through its
chairman, DR.. H. Barrett Learned, that
a total of $12,100.73 was spent for re-
pairs to school buildings and proper
OF :his amount s9,085.50 was for labor
and $3,01523 was for material.
The following appointments in the
personnel of the school system were ap-
proved as recommended by DR.. Ballou:
Miss p. C. Walther, teacher, Blair-Hayes
School, probationary, March Il: Miss
M. e. Hodge, teacher, Keene School.
probationary, March IL: E. L. Dyer,
teacher, Hine Junior High, temporary,
May 81; Miss NJ. De B. Crippen, teach
er, Mcfarland Junior High, temporary,
March IL; Miss L. A. Pair. teacher,
Bruce School, permanent, March 6;
Miss e. w. Syphax, teacher, Harrison
School, permanent. March 81; Miss
Edith Endicott, librarian, Mckinley
High, temporary, March IA; Miss Fan
ME Dodek, teacher, Hlne Junior High,
temporary, March 49,, Mrs. G. C.
Palmer, teacher, division 9. temporary,
April l.; Mrs. K. C. Crowley, teacher,
Mcfarland Junior High, temporary,
May 81; Mrs. c. G. Robinson, teacher,
Douglass Simmons School, permanent,
March 10, and Miss v. E. Darr, clerk,
Office Of director of school attendance
and work permits. probationary, March
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