The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-08-18
BALL0U WANTS
MILLIONS MORE
FOR SCHOOLS
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plated new buildings and addi-
lions to present structures; and a
&otal Of S1,468,000 as compared
with the current $4,000 appropria-
ton for land.
New Teachers College
Under the building program,
the board urged the Commissioners
to consider plans and Specifica-
lions for new structures to house
the Wilson Teachers and the Miner
Teachers Colleges; constructions Of
two new senior high schools and
plans and specifications for a
third senior high school; construc-
ton of four new junior high
schools.
The boards estimates for new
buildings, additions and land &C.
QUESTIONS included:
Shepherd School, completion
second floor, $4,000; Bancroft
School, assembly hall-gymnasium,
100000; Whittier School, assem-
bly, hall gymnasium, $4,000;
Noyes School, second story,
100000; elementary school to re-
place Bunker Hill School, Sis, 900;
elementary school on BladenSburg
Road Northeast, $4,000: Kings
man School, addition, assembly
hall-gymn aSium, $4,000;
Ketcham School, addition,
$155,000; elementary school on
Dennison School site, $4,000;
Monroe School, assembly hall-gym.
naSium, $4,000; Bundy School,
addition, $125,000; Clevela
School, addition. $115,000: Smoth-
ers School, addition, $4,000.
Other Changes
Giddings School, assembly,
nasium, $4,000; Syphax School,
d dition, 100000; Vocational
School to replace Dennison School,
$4,000; Vocational School to re-
place Lenox, 100000; Margaret
Murray Washington Vocational
School, addition, $115,000; Junior
High School on Bladensburg Road
Northeast, 100000; Shaw Junior
High School, improvements and
additions, $150,000; Terrell Junior
High School, improvements,
$4,000; Junior High School at
Euclid Street and Georgia Ave
nue., 100000; new senior high
school, Fifth and Sheridan Streets
Northwest, 100000: plans for
Rhode Island Avenue Northeast
Senior High School, $4,000.
Woodrow Wilson High School
Stadium, $4,000; Anacostia Jun.
ior-Senior High School completion,
$4,000; new senior high school,
Twenty-fourth Street and Benning
Road Northeast, $50O,000; Arm
strong High School, improvements,
$4,000; plans for new Wilson
Teachers College, $4,000.
Land Items Listed
Under the land items, the high
lights were: Site for a new Miner
Teachers College, $35,500, to be
located in Benning Road North
east; school for physically dis
abled near Children'S Hospital,
$1O5,O0O; site for junior high
school near Nineteenth Street and
Columbia Road Northwest, $780,
200; site for new Junior high school
at Massachusetts, Avenue and Ma
comb Street Northwest, $4,000.
The Community Center Depart
ment asked for an increase of
$4,000, doubling the current ap-
preparation, to allow for tempo
rary services in expansion and
maintaining the current program.
Under the building care items,
the board asked that the stand
ard hours Of labor as maintained
by other departments be treated
in like manner by the school Sys-
TEN. The total under this item
was $79, 1920, which allowed for en-
ployment of SO additional laborers
and four additional watchmen so
that the school system might put
itself on a par with other depart
ments who have standard hours
for certain classes of employees.
Want 233 Teachers
The board reported its teaching
staff had dropped so far below
normal standards that the imper-
alive needs of the District school
system called for the addition Of
233 teachers.
In addition to teachers in the
teachers colleges, senior high,
junior high and elementary
schools, the board also asked ap-
proval of an item of $4,000 to
teach health to children in con-
geSted areas. The health teach
erS, the estimated number Of
which were not enumerated, are
to instruct children in the con-
gested areas between North Capt.
toll Street, Florida Avenue North
west, the Mall, and Twelfth Street
Northwest against traffic hazards.
Buried way down in the esti-
mates was an item for new truant
officers, which probably will bring
JOY to the hockey players" The
board reported it's present staff
of truant workers are always two
weeks behind time in working on
reports and that unless the re-
quest is granted, the truant Off
GERS will fall further behind in
their work.
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