Evening star., 1932-12-07
BUDGET: INCLUDES
ONLY SCHOOLS
$500; 900 to Begin Fort Reno
High Project in List Sent
Congress.

Cutting $3,22O,264 of the Board ol
Education's own figures, the Bureau OF
the Budget today transmitted to Con-
greSs an estimated budget of $l0,679,-
$40 for the District public schools In
1894.
The total allowed by the Budget Bd-
reau is s1,483,11O less than the current
appropriation.
More than one-half of the cut in the
School Board estimates Is borne bJ
the buildings and grounds items. Con-
tinuation of the furlough and the with
holding of automatic steps-up make
salary items responsible for another
major portion of tine reductions.
Only Of the 19 building projects re-
quested by the scnooI authorities are
in the budget as il goes to Congress
These four include, however. $500, 900 to
begin construction ON new senior high
school in the Fort Reno section OF
| Chevy Chase to cost. when completed,
not more than S1,300000.
The other building projects still in
the budget are: A new eight-room
elementary school in the vicinity of the
Logan School, $105.00O. and 10-room
and gymnasium additions to the Alice
Deal and the Hugh M. Brown Junior
High Schools at $l66,000 each.
Three Site Items.
The three site items carried are: Ad-
ditional land at the Phelps Vocational
School for elementary school purposes,
SGT 900; additional land at the Syphax
School. $25,OO0, and additional land
for the site of the new Jefferson Jun
ior High School, $4,000, to become
Immediately available, together with an
unexpended balance of $75 900. which
was carried in the 1888 appropriation
act.
The eliminated construction items,
which the Board Of Education sought,
include the Roosevelt High School stad-
ium, which has been petitioned for by
civic groups for two years, and the pro-
pCseo four-room colored elementary
school to be erected on the Bates road
site, which was the center of a pro-
tracted battle among civic organiza-
tons. some Of whom opposed the erec-
tion of colored school in q white
neighborhoOd.
Other eliminated building projects
originally put in the estimates by the
School Board include: Lafayette
School addition, Truesdell School addi-
ton. Monroe School assembly hall-gym-
nasium. Young Platoon School addition,
new trade school at Thirteenth street
and Potomac avenue southeast, new
cleaning and dyeing room at the Mar
garet Murray Washington Vocational
School, gymnasium at the Powell Jun
1or High School, Eliot Junior High
strong High School automobile repair
shop, connecting corridor and necessary
remodeling between old and new por-
tons OF the Armstrong High School,
conservatory at Armstrong High School
and completion of the Junior high
school at Anacostia and the new Jeffer-
son Junior High School. The Anacos-
tia junior high school item was elm
mated when the District of Columbia
Construction Departments schedule
showed that the initial appropriation
would not be spent until 1884 and that
appropriation of funds to complete the
structure at this time would be use
less. Similarly. funds for completion"
of the new Jefferson Junior High School
were held up because the site has not
yet been purchased and consequently
no work has been begun.
Junior High Site, $4,000.
The site items stricken from the
school board estimates include $50 900
for junior high school site in the vic
unity of Wisconsin and Massachusetts
avenues. Others taken out were land
for play space at the old Business High
School and additional land at the Burr
vile School.
The budget carries an item of $4,000
Tor the maintenance of the schools for
crippled and tuberculous children and
transportation Of both groups of pupils.
Formerly these activities were carried in
the budgets under two items, one for
maintenance of the schools and the
other for transportation Of their pupils.
In Jumping these items, the Bureau of
the Budget effected reduction from the
$3l 900 total sought by the school au-
thorltieS In its items of $4,000 for
transportation and $l1, 900 for mainte-
nance.
| Under personal services the BUDGET
ary estimates include an item of $685.
600 for administrative and supervisory
| ofncers. This sum is the total Of these
salaries after deducting for legislative
| burroughs, illumination of automatic
steps-up and administrative savings
| Salaries Of clerical employees are pro-
vided in an item Of $153, 3,230 for 103 po-
sltions, and salaries in the school at
tendance and work permits department
are provided $38,6O0 for % positions.
Teachers pay Is estimated at $6,025,-
zoo for 1888 positions. This total is
net after deductions Of $550,OO0 for
legislative furlough, $139,90 for with
holding OF automatic increase and $685.
28l for administrative savings. In the
current year, $6,539,764 was appropri-
ated for 1884 positions. The actual
gross salary for the 1884 teachers roll.
before deductions were computed, to-
tailed $6,670,150.
Other 1884 Items.
Other items in the 1884 estimates as
they went before Congress, with the de-
crease or increase of each with respect
to the 1888 appropriation, follow:
For instruction Of children in vaca-
ton schools and Fairgrounds. $32, ,730.
reduction of $3,270; for teachers and
custodians in night schools, $88, ,180, re-
duction Of $500; for night school con-
tingent expenses, $4,50o, same as 1888;
Tor maintenance and instruction OF deaf
and dumb persons at Columbia Institu-
tion for the Deaf, $3l. 500, same as 1898;
maintenance and instruction of d. C.
colored deaf persons in Maryland,
$4,000, increase of $500; for American
iZation work and instruction of foreign
erS in both day and night classes,
Sl0.9l0 decrease of $1,000: for Ameri-
canization School contingent expenses,
$500. same as 1888; for Community
Center Department, S3S 800, decrease of
$3.50; for care Of buildings and grounds
(custodial salaries), $S29,600, decrease
of $59,660.
For fuel, gas and electricity, $272, 900,
decrease Of 5000; for completely fur
nishing and equipping new school struc-
lures, $74, 800, increase Of $11, ,S09; Tor
contingent expenses, including such
items as furniture repairs stationery