Evening star., 1936-04-23
a NEW SCHOOLS
ASKED IN BILL TO
EXPAND FACILITIES
Boards Five-Year Program
Includes Purchase of
a. Pieces of land.
COMMISSIONERS URGED
TO EXPEDITE MEASURE
Requests Embrace Enlargement
of As Existing Structures
by 1912.

A bill to purchase "A pieces of land,
establish "a new schools and enlarge
IS others, was to be presented today
to the District Commissioners by
Charles B. Degges, secretary of the
Board Of Education, to provide for the
expansion of the Washington schools
until 1912.
The bill, resulting from many weeks
of labor on the part of school author
tiles, Is modelled after the last five-
year building program, but its pro-
visions do not include specific money
appropriations.
Instead, the bill Is an enabling act"
to authorize the school authorities to
proceed with plans for the necessary
expansion, but appropriations will
have to be taken care of in successive
District supply bills.
Degges was instructed by the Board
of Education at its meeting yesterday
to forward the bill to the Commission
ers with a request that the measure be
expedited to the Budget Bureau so
that it may be introduced in Congress
during the present session.
Cost Not Estimated.
DR.. Frank w. Baliou, superintend-
ent, did not attempt to make an esti-
mate of the cost of the new program.
Nor did he reduce to actual figures
the total number of students to be
accommodated by the enlarged pro-
gram. He explained, however, in a
series of fractional reports the definite
effects in each area of the city.
Under the proposal, additions will
be made to the following elementary
schools:
Lafayette. Hardy, Stoddert, Curtis,
Hyde, Addison, Truesdell, Shepherd.
Powell, Whittier, Bancroft. Noyes,
Emery, Henry, Polk. Kingsman,
Monroe, Garrison. Harrison, ]. F.
Bundy. Banneker, Logan, Morse,
Cleveland, Slater, Langston, Young,
Birney. Giddings. Lovejoy, Payne,
Smothers, Syphax and Deanwood.
Additions to junior high schools are
included for the following: Alice Deal,
Powell. Taft, Eliot. Brown, Francis,
Terrell, Shaw and Randall.
Other Additions Planned.
Additions also will be made to
Woodrow Wilson, Roosevelt, Eastern
and Armstrong high schools.
The bill provides for entirely new
plants for the two teachers colleges.
Wilson Teachers College, under the
proposal, will be built in the area
bounded by Thirteenth, Fourteenth,
Upshur and Allison streets. Miner will
be constructed at Twenty-fourth street
and Benning road northeast. The
present Wilson and Miner buildings
will be transferred to the colored
divisions of elementary schools.
Other additions authorized include
the Margaret Murray Washington Vo-
cational School for Girls and the
Phelps Vocational School for Boys.
Additional land purchases are in
cluded for boys trade school in the
central part of the city, combined
male and female vocational school in
Southeast Washington and land for an
addition at Margaret Murray Wash
ington School.
Perhaps the largest financial item
involved in the entire program is
that of land purchases. The bill would
authorize sites in the following locali-
ties: Near Washington Circle, Ameri-
can University Park, Addison School,
Third and Concord streets, Twenty
fourth street and Randolph place
northeast, Seaton School, Peabody
School, Eleventh and G streets south
east, near Fairbrother and Greenleaf
Schools, Alabama avenue and PennSyl-
vania avenue southeast, E street and
Minnesota avenue southeast, Bryan
School, Dennison School on s street.
Bruce School, Rhode Island avenue
northeast, near CORDOBA High School,
near jefferson High School SOUTH
west, near Wheatley School, Anacos-
tia, near Terrell Junior high, Sherman
avenue south of Columbia road, and
near Shaw.
Other Purchases Listed.
Additional land purchases for ex-
pansion, most of which include either
gymnasiums or play grounds, include
the following: Garrison, Harrison,
Morgan, j. F. Bundy, Banneker, Logan,
Morse, Cleveland, Douglas-Simmons
Slater-Langston Twining, Ambush,
Smallwood, Birney, Burrville, Van
Ness, Loyejoy, Payne, Smothers,
Syphax and Deanwood.
Three more land purchases will pro-
vide for junior high schools In Cleve-
land Park near Massachusetts, avenue
and Macomb street near Nineteenth
street and Columbia road, and near
Kansas avenue and Gallatin street.
The bill provides for purchases Of
land and the construction Of two
new schools for physically handicap
ped children. One of these will be
located near Children's Hospital and
the other near Freedmen's Hospital.
New elementary schools, ranging in
size from Z to "a rooms would be
erected at Thirty-ninth and Fessen-
den streets, Third and Concord streets.
on Blandensburg road. Eleventh and
G streets southeast, Alabama and
PENNSYLVANIA avenues southeast, Min
nesota avenue and e street southeast,
and in the vicinity Of Douglas-Sim-
mons, Twining and Van Ness Schools.
Locations Are Cited.
The new Dennison Vocational
School would be located at Arkansas
avenue and Allison street. K
The proposed new Junior high
schools would be in the vicinity of
Massachusetts, avenue and Macomb
street, Cleveland Park. Nineteenth
street and Columbia road, Kansas