Evening star., 1934-08-19
Program to Provide InStruc.
ton for Jobless Over
School Age.
10000 TEACHERS IN US.
DUE TO GET POSITIONS
Nursery Centers Give Special At
tention to Children of I'm
employed; 10 Located Here.

ployment for teachers and providicg G
special educational opportunities fol
those who are outside regular school
age limits.
Announcement a few days ago By
the Federal Relief Administration
that the ultimate goal of its educa-
tional program is to put II, 900 teach
ers to work throughout the Nation
called attention to the fact that Dis
trict relief and school officials have
been cooperating in this movement
since last Spring.
Elwood Street, District public well
fare director, said yesterday it is ex-
pected that beginning with September
the District will have $1,000 a month
allotted out of its Federal relief funds
for these emergency educational &C
tivities, or slightly more than mas been
available heretofore.
Since these Federal funds must be
used to create new services end not
to supplement regular school budgets,
this emergency program rakes pos
sible classes for adults who want to
better their chances of obtaining work
1t also has resulted in establishing
here and throughout the country
nursery centers in school buildings,
where children below school age, from
families of the unemployed, are given
special attention.
Ten Nursery Centers.
The District is operating IL of these
emergency nursery centers in the
schools, five for white children and
five for colored. Robert L. Hsycock,
assistant superintendent in charge of
elementary schools, described yester-
day how these nursery Centers are
functioning.
The centers are for children be-
tween the ages of and years whose
parents, for the time being are unable
to provide for them adequately, Mr.
Haycock explained. The parents may
bring the children to these centers
for six hours day, where provision
has been made for suitable diet, health
examination and kindergarten activ-
tiles.
The five white centers were estab-
lished at the Corcoran, Peabody, Sea-
ton, Fairbrother and S. ]. Bowen
Schools.
The Seaton Center has been closed,
but only temporarily.
The colored centers are at the Har-
rison, Bell, Anthony Bowen, Dean
wood and j. F. Cook Schools.
The attendance at these nursery
In frin nf oh
Is children day at each location, or
daily total average of $50, Mr.. Hay
cock said.
In the field of adult training, the
emergency educational program en-
braces literary classes and voca-
tional instruction for unemployed
persons who can improve their
chance of obtaining work by re-
ceiving special training, such as ste
biography or tipping. There is also re-
habilitation instruction, to equip per-
sons with physical handicaps for some
line of work they can perform. Miss
Maude Alton, director Of Americaniza-
ton work in the schools, is one of the
school officials who has taken an ac-
tive part in establishing these emer-
gency educational services.
Supervisors Planned.
Up to this time, Mr.. Haycock said,
school officials have given time to the
organization of these special emer-
gency activities in addition to their
regular duties. One of the purposes
of the increase to be made from now
on in the Federal allotmentS to the
District and the States will be to pro-
vide supervisors as well as teachers
for these emergency educational
facilities.
The hope that this emergency edu-
cational program throughout the
country would create employment fol
10000 teachers was expressed by Au-
brey williams, acting Federal relief
administrator, in a statement, outlin-
ing the scope Of the administrators
plans.
Under direction of DR.. L. r. Alder
man, head of the Education Division
of F. E. r. A., the program is expected
to reach 100000 persons whose edu-
cational requirements are not covered
now by State educational programs.
The major part of the program Is in
tended to improve the wage-earn1ng
ability of unemployed adults.
The results of last Winters efforts
convinced Federal Relief Administra-
tor Harry L. Hopkins of the necessity
for broadening the emergency educa-
tional program, and the Summer has
been devoted to laying plans and
training supervisors for the work, his
Office stated. Thirteen training Gen.
ters were opened throughout the coun-
try for the instruction of supervisors,
and DR.. Alderman inspected many Of
these training centers in August and
gave advice and assistance to State
administrators who are in direct
charge of the work.
To Aid Unemployed.
The Headquarters of the Federal
Relief Administration summarized its
present view Of the emergency edu-
cational program as follows:
Conclusions drawn from the past
activities of the Education Division
point to the need for additional serv-
ices to meet the demands Of the adult
population which lacked the oppor-
tunity in youth for training which it
now finds necessary to fit itself for an
intelligent participation in the respon-
sibilities of citizenship, and to take
advantage of the opportunities which
are opened to workers in their every
day work.
with the Summer given over to an
intensive training and instruction OF
supervisors and State relief admins
tration heads, the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration looks forward
to the Fall emergency education pro-
gram with confidence"
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