Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-30
Group Goes Over Requests
for Improvements and New
School Equipment.
ATTITUDE OF COMMITTEE
TO INFLUENCE DECISIONS
Matter of Teachers Salaries Also
Believed on Today's Bust
ness Calendar.

Fortified with knowledge of the trend
of the Senate District committees atti-
tude toward District school needs as in
dicated by the Senate committee report
on the 1881 appropriation bill, the Dis
trict Board of Education's finance COM
mittee this afternoon Is attempting to
fix money limitations on the 1882 school
estimates.
Converting at 3 o'clock, the committee
under DR.. Abram Simon, chairman, is
giving final consideration to the mass
of requests for school Improvements and
equipment which was presented to the
school board at the citizens conference
Easter Monday night. This data has
been assembled and put in order by
Harry o. Hine, secretary OF the board.
Consider Teachers.
While this afternoons meeting is
executive, it is known in school circles
that serious consideration will be given
the teaching staff salary items and the
possibility of confusion which is ex-
pected to result from a difference Of
opinion between the House subcom-
mittee and the Senate committee. The
House group, of which Representative
Simmons of Nebraska is chairman, al
lowed IL teaching positions for next
year. but included no money for the
salaries in the belief that adequate
funds could be Saved" from various
sources. The Senate, however, not only
has replaced teaching positions which
the House committee struck from the
estimates as sent forward by the Budget
Bureau but it provided money for the
salaries. An attempt is being made this
afternoon to frame estimates which can
be modified later according to the 1881
appropriation bill as it finally is passed
by both houses.
The Senate committees report on the
1891 bill also presents a new problem
to the boards finance committee today
in the elimination from the bill of the
12-room and 2-gymnasium addition
sought for the Gordon Junior High
School. Some of the most serious con-
gestion anywhere in the school system
has centered about the Gordon School,
where it has been impossible to estab-
lish a ninth grade, and at the Western
High School, nearby, from which all
non president pupils and pupils living
east of Connecticut avenue and Rock
Creek Park were excluded last year in
an effort to accommodate the heavy en-
rollment.
Drop Gordon Improvements.
1t was explained at the Franklin
School today that the Senate commit
tee struck out the Gordon Junior High
School improvements in order to COM
the colored divisions and regret was
expressed that the Senate committee,
without consulting the school people
themselves, chose the Gordon building
for the sacrifice. 1t was pointed out
that the addition requested for the
Stuart Junior High School could have
been better spared. The finance COM
mittee then, If it assumes that the
Gordon item is lost for the present, will
be obliged to include it in the 1882
estimates.
Besides DR.. Simon, the finance COM
mittee Included Dr. H. Barrett Learned
and DR.. j. Hayden johnson. Other
members of the board have been re-
auested to sit in with the committee
this afternoon. The school authorities
have until Monday to complete the
gigantic task confronting them as the
commissioners have asked for all Dis
trict department estimates by that day.