Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-27
FIVE NEW SCHOOLS
ASKED BY BOARD
IN % ESTIMATES
Completion of Three Others
Is Recommended in
Budget Request.
TOTAL REQUIREMENTS
PLACED AT 14,829,78O
Construction Item Amounts to
$4,oss,ooo With $e5e,5oo for
Buying Additional Sites.

Recommendations for the construc-
ton Of two new junior high schools
and three elementary schools to meet
the growing demand for additional
classrooms in the overcrowded public
schools Of the National Capital are con-
tanned in the Board Of Education eSti-
mates submitted to the Commissioners
for 1882.
AS previously announced, the total
budget Of $14,s29,78o, as prepared by
school officials, represents an increase
of $941, $40 over the $13,888,110 car
ried for schools in the pending District
appropriation bill as it was reported to
the Senate. More details of the new
terday by District Auditor Donovan.
These details include, besides the new
construction which would add 80 much
needed class rooms, items for compile
ton Of the newly started Roosevelt High
School, the new platoon school for COL
ored pupils in Northeast Washington
and a junior high school for white
pupils in the same section.
Other recommendations in the school
budget of outstanding Importance pro-
vide for the purchase Of sites for new
senior, a new Junior high school and
three elementary schools, as well as
additions to six Fairgrounds.
$4,OSS,O00 for Construction.
OF the estimates, it was announced,
81 ,083 900 is to provide for new build
ings and $656,50o for additional sites,
making a total of $4,739, 500, as COM
pared with 1888, 200 in the pending
bill.
The new schools provided in the esti-
mates are as follows: Junior high school
at Eighteenth and Otis streets north
east, to cost $500 900, of which 5000, 900
Is asked to begin construction: new
junior high at Seventh and H streets
southwest, also to cost $500,000, of
which 100000 is asked in the new
budget: a new 16-room building on the
site Of the present Giddings School,
to cost $275 900, an Groom building at
Connecticut avenue and Upton street,
to cost 5000, 1000, and an Groom build
ing for the Burleith and Glover Park
districts at a cost of 100000.
Sites for the two new junior high
schools already have been obtained. The
school In the Southwest Sec
ton would replace the old Jefferson
School, long since ready for abandon
ment.
To provide for further class rooms in
the school system, the Board OF Educa-
ton also asks for additions to num-
Der Of the present schools. These in
clude a 12-room addition to Janney
School, to cost 5000 900; an eight-room
placing the original four-room Bright
wood school, to cost $4,000; construc-
ton of the proposed second wing OF
Junior High School at a
cost of 100000; a four-room addition
to the Orr School, costing $4,000; an
addition, with a gymnasium
and assembly hall, for the Harrison
School, costing 100000; two gym
nasiums for the Randall Junior High
School, $4,000; connecting corridor
between the June and Towers Junior
High Schools, $4,000; gymnasium and
hall for the Whittier School,
$50, 900, and a gymnasium and assembly
hall at the Broad Branch Road School
for $4,000.
Requirements Estimated.
It is expected that 100000 will be
required to complete the Roosevelt Jun
Tor High School in 1882 and the Board
of Education also asks 500, 900 to COM
plete the platoon school for colored
in the Northeast section and $780, 900
for the completion of the white Junior
high school In the same section.
More than a third Of the $941, $40
in the increased school budget, or $685.
l59, provides for the equipment OF new
buildings that will be completed in
1882. Of this amount $4,000 will be
required for the new Roosevelt school.
ArN
School. the same sum for the North
east Junior High School, $17,741 for
the proposed colored platoon school and
$l5,544 for the Gordon Junior High
School. (,
The 1882 estimates call for the pur-
chase of grounds for additions to play
at the Addison, johnson, s. j.
Bowen, Giddings, Jones and Ambush
Schools. and also for elementary school
sites in the vicinity of Foxhall road and
Calvert street, in the vicinity of the
Keane School, which will be replaced
with a larger building; a Junior high
school site in the vicinity OF the Sim
mons School, replacement OF the Bates
road site purchased with a four-room
extensible elementary building, site Tor
a new senior high school to be con-
structed north Of Brightwood and an
High School.
The Board Of Education has asked for
a $59,567 increase for the care and
of schools, the total being
1855 ,479. which includes provision for
caretakers and employees at the new
schools, This in q measure explains the
need for the increase sought.
Salaries Item Increased.
A new item in the estimates requests
$l24,479 for remodeling the Columbia
Junior High School, the Obbot Voca-
tional School, old Business High School
and the Morse Elementary School.
Although no increased salaries for
school teachers are sought by the school
board. the estimates for salaries of
teachers and Librarians total $6,566, 700,
which represents an increase Of 1924, 700
over the House 1881 bill.
An increase of SO teachers over the
number in the schools on April Is last
is asked in the estimates, necessitated
by the opening Of additional class rooms.
Fifty-eight new elementary class rooms
which are to be opened in 1882 will
require employment OF II new teachers
with two teaching principals, while the
new high and junior high schools will
necessitate the employment of SO teach
ers. but the total additional teachers, it
was explained, will be reduced by
changes of assignments among existing
teachers.
Sixteen new clerks also are sought in
the next budget, as well as changes
in the status of present employees to
provide seven new administrative and
two new teaching principals.
For the maintenance of the Com