Evening star., 1931-12-15
SCHOOL ESTIMATES
EXCLUDE L Of q
BUILDING PROJECTS
Only One of 13 Land Items
Left in Program Sent
to Congress.
DENNISON VOCATIONAL
STRUCTURE IS REFUSED
Appropriation of $225,000 for
Roosevelt High Stadium Also
Stricken Out.

Eleven out of 81 building projects
and IL out of 13 land items which the
Board of Education had included in
its S3,467,500 buildings s-and-grounds
budget for 1888 were excluded entirely
from the estimates for next year as
they were transmitted to Congress by
the Bureau of the Budget.
This was revealed for the first time
last night by DR.. Frank w. Ballou
superintendent of schools, when he re-
ported to the delegates of the Capitals
organized citizenry attending the joint
conference with the school board on
the fate Of appropriation requests made
by the school authorities.
In making public the specific items
stricken from the budget of the school
board, DR.. Ballou represented the
budget bureau as making drastic cuts
on the ground that Washington's school
system should be content with its ad-
vances to date and should not, in view
of the depression, seek to reach higher
standards of progress. He pointed out
further that when Congress last year
appropriated an unusually large sum
of money for buildings and grounds, It's
Subcommittee on District Approprla-
tionS made 1t plain that its generous
action was not to be continued as a
precedent"
Reluctant to Give Funds.
1.-THE idea which the Bureau OF the
Budget-and others who have to dc
with the approval of our requests fol
appropriations-seem to have had
Dr.. Ballou declared, was that we
should be willing to maintain what we
have in the face of this depression
without attempting to go forward tt
new high standards of progress
Frankly. we were shown very little
sympathy in our efforts to secure
funds which would look to the further
advancement of our system at this
time. And that goes for the Commls-
sioners as we'll as the Budget Bureau y
Dr. Ballou added, however, that .he
estimates as forwarded to Congress
contained very little cut in the main
tenance items" of the schools. The re-
ductions which were made, he said
we're effected chiefly on the basis OF
the elimination of new buildings for
which most of the increase was to have
provided. Even in the face of the re-
auctions in the buildings and grounds
budget, the superintendent declared.
provision was made for more actual
pupil accommodations than would be
required for the bare estimated In
crease in enrolment.
In framing the 1888 school estimates,
DR.. Ballou explained, the Bureau OF
the Budget and the Commissioners fol-
lowed the procedure announced year
ago by the Subcommittee on Appro-
priations that future school construc-
ton should be provided to provide for:
First, increased enrolment; second
assembly -gymnasiums not now pro-
vided and third, replacement OF old
structures. 1t was in this order, he
asserted, that the budget bureau shows
the items which were included IN the
estimates.
Cites S250,000 Cut
The largest single building item
stricken from the school board requests
by the budget bureau was that OF
$25O,O00 requested for a new building
to accommodate the Dennison Voca-
tional School. DR. Ballou said this
building was to constitute the first step
toward the modernization of the Dis
trct's vocational education system. 1t
was stricken from the budget by the
Commissioners and left out as well by
the budget bureau.
The second largest item was 1925 600
for the construction of the Roosevelt
11lSH 0CilOOl SGdOlUlTl. dlSO "da
left out first by the Commissioners.
This reduction was offset to some ex-
tent, however, by the Budget Bureaus
raising of the $4,000 item requested by
the school people for the completion
of the Roosevelt Building to S135,00
This increase, he explained, will pro-
vide for the grading and landscaping
Of the surrounding grounds.
Ev,yudod V{oros ;sfad
The items stricken from the esti-
mates entirely included:
Truesdell School, eight room addition
and assembly $4,000;
Whittier School assembly gymnasium
100000; Brookland School. eight room
addition and assembly gymnasium,
$4,000. Monroe School, assembly
gymnasium, $4,000; Bates Road School
new, four-room building, $4,000;
NJ, M. Washington Vocational School
room for cleaning and dyeing, $7,500;
and Armstrong High School-auto
shop and gymnasium. $4,000; connect
ing corridor, S45,000; and conservatory
$4,000.
These total eliminations were offset
In part, however, by the insertion of q
$4,000 item for the construction of g
new four-room building to replace the
Kenilworth School, which was col
dertned as unsafe at the opening of the
current school year, and 100000 for
the new Foxhall Village elementary
school.
The Budget Bureau also covered some
Of the loss by adding $4,000 to the
school boards request for 100000 te
begin the new Anacostia Junior High
School. The bureau also added $4,000
to the boards request for $4,000 fol
a two-room addition to the Crummel
School. While it refused to approve q
request for a gymnasium for the M
street Junior High School and ar
asSembly-gymnasium for the Douglass
Simmons elementary School, each at
$4,000, the Bureau of the Budget in
serted an item of $50 1000 for construc-
ton Of an assembly-gymnasium which
would be used jointly by both schools
The budget bureau also increased the
school boards $4,000 request to cover
plans for the proposed senior high
school for Reno to $4,000. This, how
ever, was $4,000 below the figure sub
mitted by the Commissioners for the
same purpose.
- 100000 Reduction
The budget bureau reduced the
school boards request for 100000 fol
an .eight-room addition and assembly
gymnasium for the Bancroft School tt
$105,000. Similarly, it cut $50,00t
from the school boards petition fol
100000 for completion of the Taf
Junior High School. These reductions
were made, DR.. Ballou explained, be
cause the Budget Bureau believes th'
construction may be done within th'
new figures in view of the lower build
ing prices For the same reason, thu
budget bureau cut the $4,000 reques
for the eight-room building to replac'
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