Evening star., 1934-01-04
Addition to Browne Structure
and S400, 900 for Wilson
School Only Items.
FUNDS FOR ANAC0STIA
UNIT ARE WITHHELD
Provisions for Increased Personnel
Omitted in Face of Enroll
ment Gains.
Again emitting provision for the pur-

the Budgets estimates of S9,504, LOG for
the District Of Columbia public schools
in 1885 call for virtually static pro-
gram of public education here during
the forthcoming fiscal year.
Substantially the same number of
teachers, librarians, officers and clerks
as were provided for this year are
carried in the 1885 estimates. although
the number Of pupils to be taught thlz
year is 2,100 greater than last year, and
although this increase in school enroll
ment will be raised to at least 1000 by
the time the 1885 funds become avail
able.
The only new building item carried
in the 1885 estimates is S16800O for
construction of a l0-class room and
l-gymnaSium addition to the Hugh NJ.
Browne Junior High School for colored.
100000 for Wilson School.
The second building item is 100000
for continuing" construction of the
proposed Woodrow Wilson High School
for the beginning of which S4750 was
appropriated last year.
The estimates include also the re-
appropriation of $4,000 Of any un-
expended building funds in this years
appropriations for construction of a
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School.
Construction of the addition at the
Browne Junior High School will relieve
serious congestion. Inclusion of this
item, however, calls attention to the
Budget Bureaus omission of funds for
construction Of similar addition to
the Alice Deal Junior High School,
which is so crowded now that approx
mately 300 of its students have to at
tend class in the temporarily fitted in
| completed second floor of an elementary
school three blocks away.
The item for the woodrow Wilson
High School is the second allotment of
money for this project which has not
yet been started. Last year Congress
appropriated S475,000 to begin the con-
| struction and it authorized the Com
| m1ssloners to enter into a contract for
construction Of this new high school
at total cost not to exceed Sl,l50,000.
A year earlier Congress appropriated
$4,000 for the preparation Of plans for
this school.
Anacostia Funds withheld
In including continuing funds for the
Wilson High School the Budget Bureau
carried out its announced intention of
withholding funds for completion of
the proposed junior high school in
Anacostia. Congress had appropriated
funds for the beginning of that struc-
ture and, like it did in the case of the
Wilson High School, had authorized
the Commissioners to enter into a con-
tract Tor construction of the building
at a specified cost. The Commissioners
| Jailed to negotiate the contract how
ever, on the ground that the beginning
fund was insufficient to carry the con-
tractor through whole year.
| While school authorities were unable
TO say definitely today whether there
, would be any balance" out Of this
years building appropriations with
Wh1ch to proceed with the erection of
the Powell Junior High Schools GYM
naslum, they hailed the possibility of
providing that feature as the rectif-
ell school several years ago. Funds
were appropriated for the building Of
on which the appropriation was figured,
called for erection of a gymnasium
equipped with folding doors which
would partition it into virtually two
complete gyms When this opera
ton was undertaken, however, it was
found that the present structure would
not carry the additional weight atop the
| eSoNAeOi AS4li, "1lCIC IL was DTOpOS6U 10
place it. Therefore the plans were al
tered so that boys gymnasium and
a girls gymnasium could be built at
the same cost on the ground Au-
thorltieS construed, however, that since
the Appropriation language specified "a
gymnasium" the two separate units
could not legally be erected. Therefore
the boys of the Powell Junior High
School have been without athletic &C.
| commodations since
The 1885 estimates carry an item Of
S579,600 for 1877 officers positions. The
present appropriation Of S55O,OOO was
to provide for 1877 positions. SINH
larly the new estimates provide S146,-
lis for 100 clerical positions, while
this years appropriation of $4,000
provided for 98.8 positions. Twenty-one
| position in the department of school
attendance and work permits are pro-
vided in the 1885 estimates with $685.
$40, compared with the $33,4l3 for the
same number of jobs this year.
A total OF SIS, 728,500 is carried in the
1895 estimates for 1880 teachers and
lorarlans, ans The current appropriation
of S5,422,948 provided for 2,8783 po-
Sitions.
of the same number of positions under
these four claSSif1cations as were pro-
vided for this year, school officials said
that the coming year will demand even
stricter economy of personnel than
1884 required. The 1884 estimates,
they said, represented a reduction in
the number of positions over 1888, al
though the number Of pupils to be
taught this year actually was 2,100
greater than last year. BY, the same
token, they pointed out, an increase of
at least another 2,l0O will be recorded
by next year. So that the school sys-
tenn will be required to instruct about
| 4,200 more children next year with
fewer instructors than 1t had two years
| previously.
The increase in the money carried in
| 1885 estimates over the current ap-
propriations is represented by the diff
ference of per cent In the pay de-
duction, the new estimates calling for
pay cut Of 10 per cent instead Of Is
per cent.
Other Items in Estimate.
Other items in the 1885 estimates
include:
An item Of s26,4 for instruction
and supervision of children in the va
cation schools and Fairgrounds, an In
crease of Sl,460 over the current ap-
preparation:
An item of s7e.4o7 for teachers and
janitors of night schools, including
teachers of Industrial commercial and
trade instruction; an increase of S4,407;
An item Of $4,000 for contingent ano
other necessary expenses for industrial.
commercial and trade instruction
| classes:
An item of sa2, 500 for maintenance
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