Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-05
PARENT-TEACHER
AID TO Be ASKED
FOR NEEDY PUPILS
All Associations to Be Urged
to Give Surplus Money to !.
General Lunch Fund.
BALLOU RECOMMENDS
BURDEN EQUALIZATION
Central Committee Would See That
All Hungry Children Would
Receive Food.

The Board of Education is going to
appeal to each parent-teacher asSocia-
ton in the District to contribute lat
least a part of the surplus of their re-
Spective -and-cracker funds to a
general fund which would be used to aid
heavily burdened parent-teacher groups
in providing lunches for pupils unable
to provide their own. The proposed
general fund" would be administered
by the central organization of the par
ent-teacher association.
This plan was recommended to the
school board late yesterday by DR.. Frank
w Ballou, superintendent, who, with his
staff had held frequent conferences with
parent-teacher groups and social agen-
cies during the past week, and was
promptly approved. Thus, the first def
mite step in the establishment of pro-
cedure by which the financial side of
the free lunch program in the schools
could be met was taken.
Committee Plan Approved.
The board also approved DR.. Ballou's
recommendation that cooperative
committee of school officers be named
to work with the central parent-teacher
organizations CT the white and the COL
ored schools "in such efforts as may be
necessary on the part of the schools and
the parent-teacher organizations to raise
funds to carry on the work fer which
the general fund is created" This COM
mittee will be composed of Stephen E.
Kramer, first assistant superintendent
in the white divisions; Garnet c. VIII
kinSon, first assistant superintendent
in the colored divisions, and Robert L..
Haycock, assistant superintendent of
0chcolS.
In recommending the establishment
of a central fund for the assistance of
Chose parent teacher organizations
Ehich are most hard-pressed, DR.. Bal
bu reviewed briefly the steps which al
Deady had been taken to relieve the
conditions which his survey of the
bchool system had revealed. He cited
the conference which Mr.. Kramer had
with representatives of the District of
Columbia Congress of Parents and
Teachers, during which the congress
agreed to assume the responsibility of
feeding the needy children. He told the
BOARD further that all field officers in
he school system had been notified to
provide every child who needed such
assistance with milk and cracker
EncheS, with the assurance that any
teficit incurred would be met.
Recommends Appeal.
DIR. Ballous actual recommendation
gCoSCAddy NoS JAAdS lAlC DSdIQ VI Euu-
cation prepare and transmit to each
of the local parent-teacher aSsocia-
tons an appeal that at least part of
the balances which may now exist in
the milk and cracker fund of the
respective schools be contributed by
the local organization to a general
fund. This fund should be admin
istered by the central organization, with
the advice and cooperation of the
schools, for the assistance of the
parent-teacher organizations in the
schools which present a problem be-
yond the capacity Of the local orgafi-
cation TO meet"
DR.. Ballou yesterday was authorized
by the board TO reorganize the kinder
garten system of the District so that
it would comply with the standards
established on his recommendation by
the board several months ago. This
authorization was given the superin-
tendent without discussion when Dr.
Ballou assured that the reorganization
would contemplate only the more
equitable adjustment of the teacher
load in these classes and would not
entail f11n aIOciT1o ptif IF CfnUIa rIaec