The Washington times., 1935-01-07
100000 CUT
FROM TOTAL
ESTIMATES
Building Funds Stricken Out
Despite 0VercroWding;
New Sites Refused

Drastic curtailments in the
budget estimates for the District
public schools were reported to
Congress today when President
Roosevelt transmitted the budget
for the fiscal year 1886.
The total estimates, based on
the Budget Bureau figures, give
the local school system $l1,392.-
$50, which Is almost $4,000, 600
less than the $14.117,911 eSti-
mates Of school officials.
Although the 1885 estimates
represent an increase Of 1901, ,223
over the current appropriation,
most Of this sum is taken up by
the five per cent salary restora-
tion, which the President di-
rected should be included in all
estimates for 1885.
BQll01nG Eung Cut
Despite the fact that school
officials asked $2,9s5.ooO for
buildings and grounds, claiming
that their budget curtailments
In recent years have virtually
crippled the school system, over
crowding schools in all sections
Of the city, the Budget Bureau
allowed only SITS, 600 for this
purpose.
This estimate does not provide
for any construction Of new
buildings to relieve congestion.
which school officials say Is the
greatest in the history Of the
public school system, nor does
it allot any funds for the pur-
chase Of new land on which to
build new schools in the future.
OF the 500, 900 increase. 1884,
023 is taken up by the restoration
Of the last remaining S per cent
in Government salaries, leaving
only an increase Of less than
100000.
With only $775.O 900 allowed for
buildings and grounds under the
Budget Bureau recommendations,
several important pieces Of con-
Struction, which school officials
stated were absolutely necessary
for accommodation of the $4,000
school children and the antici-
pated increases in enrolment,
were eliminated.
Additions Allowed
Construction allowed under the
budget recommendations include
$4,000 for the construction Of
an eightroom building on the old
John r. Cook School site; SITS, 900
for an addition to the Eliot Jun
ior High School; 100000 for
eight-room addition to the Ran
dali Junior High School; $3.50, 900
for beginning construction Of an
addition to the AnacoStia Junior
High School to be used for senior
high school pupils; $4,000 for
completion of erection Of the
Woodrow Wilson High School and
improvement Of its grounds, and
$4,000 for improvements at the
Armstrong High School.
School officials, in their eSti-
mates Of $2,469 500 for conStruc-
tion, had requested funds for "a
projects, three Of them being for
new buildings.
One of these was for the con-
Gtruction Of an elementary school
on BladenSburg Road near Mt.
Hamilton. The other two were
for construction Of the Dennison
Vocational school, and the
Bunker Hill School.
Among the projects requested
by school officials and not granted
by the Budget Bureau were addi-
tionS to the Truesdell, Ketcham,
Monroe, Grimke, GiddingS, M. M.
Washington Vocational, Paul Jun
ior High, and plans for a new SEN
ior high in Northeast Washington
and new senior high in Manor
Park.
Land Funds Denied.
The school officials also re-
quested six appropriations for the
purchase Of land, including site
for elementary school purposes in
the vicinity Of Third st. and Con-
cord Ave. N. w., land adjoining
the Dennlson School for elemen.
tary school purposes, site for two
schools for crippled children in
the vicinity Of the Children's Hos
pital and Freedmen's Hospital, site
for a junior high school near
Massachusetts, Ave. and Macomb
st. N. W., and additional land at
the John F. Cook School.
The Budget Bureau estimates
Hor schools s~e $613,812 below the
estimates as transmitted by the
District Commissioners. The Dis
trict heads recommended an ap-
preparation of $12,005, 1862, with
$1,110,000 for buildings and $75..
D00 for the purchase Of land.
% Although the school budget in
: the past has represented approx.
imately one-third of the total Dis
trict appropriation, the estimates
as transmitted to Congress today
give the schools only about ~
per cent OF the total.
Total estimates for operation