Evening star., 1932-04-14
BIGGEST SAVING FOR SCHOOLS
SEEN IN NONRESIDENT BAN
"a Kindergarten Teachers to Be Trans
ferred to Elementary Positions Also
to Reduce Expenses.

District For this reason the committee
has dropped from the bill provision
contained in the current appropriation
act permitting the children of persons
in the service of the United States sta
toned outside the District to be ad-
mitted without payment of tuition"
Exempts Present Students.
This provision, however, specifically
exempts the Maryland and Virginia
children already in the schools. These
would be permitted to complete their
present course.
In the bill it reported to the House
today the committee recommends the
appropriation of $6,5l0,333 for the sala-
ries of teachers and librarians. This
sum is $111,113 more than the current
appropriation and Sl62667 less than the
figure submitted by the Bureau OF the
Budget. A total o. &c new positions Is
provided for under the committees plan,
which calls for the transfer of "a kin
dergarten teachers who are made ellgl-
BILE to teach in grades one to four OF
the elementary schools by reason OF
provision in the current appropriation
act" The total carried in the Dill Is
designed to provide for 1884 teachers
and librarians, as compared with the
2,843 teachers and IL librarians main
tanned under the current act.
A reduction of $1,000 in the fund for
administrative and supervisory officers,
as transmitted by the Budget Bureau,
is represented in the item OF $669,9l5
carried in the bill. This cut, the CON-
mittee explains, results from its policy
of eliminating automatic promotions for
length of service The allowed amount,
however. is s4,475 more than the cur
rent appropriation, due to increases in
the force.
For clerks and other employees the
bill carries $164,760. which is the
amount recomm ended by the Budget
Bureau Representing an increase OF
$500 over the current appropriation,
the total allows two additional clerks,
one for the colored M Street Junior
High School and one for the new Taft
Junior High School.
Promotions Eliminated.
A cut of s7OO below the Budget Bu-
reau allowance for the department of
school attendance and work permits is
represented in the item of $42, 700 for
this purpose The reduction, the COM
mittee reported, results from the denial
of automatic promotions. TIE total,
however, is $4,000 more than the cur
rent appropriations.
A total of 1889 260 is carried in the
bill for care Of buildings and grounds"
This item, representing the salaries of
the various cuStodial employees. is $54,-
$50 more than the current appropria-
ton, by virtue, the committee explained,
"of the large number of new school
buildings being put into service" The
L. knIO hot fro nl
by the Budget Bureau, and this reduc-
ton. the committee told the House, lis
due to the denial of new employees for
the old Business High School and the
proposed M Street Junior High School,
together with the elimination of two
assistant janitors at 81 200 each at the
Roosevelt High School"
The subcommittee met the issue in
volving the evacuation this school year
Of the Wilson Teachers College and the
apprehension for the adjoining Ross
elementary School. each of which
showed evi6ences of disintegration, by
including in the bill $4,000 for re-
pairs to the college and "for razing the
Ross Elementary School" This fund is
to be made available out of unexpended
balances in the current buildings and
grounds appropriation. Engineers at
the District Building had estimated
that the Wilson Teachers College
repairs would approximate S150,000.
The Ross School. reported by engineers
to be in no immediate danger of
collapse still is occupied and pro-
vision for this buildings razing was
not publicly expected.
S75.OOO Below Estimate.
The fund for the repairs and
improvements to school buildings in
the bill totals 100000 of which
100000 is to be Immediately available
The total is SIS, ZOO less than the
Budget Bureau had allowed in response
to the School Boards estimate. The
reduction, the committee reported, was
due to its conviction that present day
lower costs justify the cut.
The largest single item among the
allowed Sl,356,000 worth of building
projects is the S315000 for a trade
school for boys at Twenty-fourth
street and Benning road northeast.
S225 900 to begin construction of the new
junior high school at Minnesota avenue
and Nineteenth street in Anscosti
This school. when completed will have
cost S450.o00.
Completion of the new Taft Junior
High School is provided for in an item
of S250000
Other buildings items in the bill
include $105,000 for an eight-rcom
addition to the Bancroft School;
sll5,000 for an eight-room extensible
building to replace the old Keene
School; $4,000 for a twc-room ad-
dition to the Crumwell Schol includ-
ing new heating plant and the
necessary remodeling of the present
structure; 100000 for completion of
the Roosevelt High School; $4,000 for
the preparation of plans including
the employment of personal services,
BY contract or otherwise" for the
proposed new senior high school for
the Fort Reno section of Chevy Chase:
$4,000 for a four-room building to
replace the razed Kenilworth School
which was evacuated last Fall when
its collapse was feared, and 100000 for
combination assembly hall and
gymnasium for the Douglass Simmons
School and a gymnasium for the M
Street Junior High School, provided
that the unexpened balance of the
appropriation of $130,000 for an
addition to the Douglas Simmons
School contained in the District of
Columbia appropriation act for 1882
shall be available for the improvement
OF the central heating plant for the
M Street Junior High and the Douglas
Simmons Schools"
Contrast Is Shown.
The school building program above
recommended" the committee reported
to the House, represents a sharp
contrast when compared with ap-
for this purpose during
recent years. The average appropri-
alton for this purpose during the fiscal
years of 1880, 1881 and 1882 is
$3,120000, which is considerably more
than twice the amount contained in the
accompanying bill The marked reduc-
ton is due to the fact that the demand
for additional school room space has
been met by the accelerated building
program of recent years, which was far
above the normal rate, and because Of
the need for reduced expenditures.