Evening star., 1938-04-26
BOARDC0NS|DERS
EIGHT SCHOOLS
FOR 1910 BUDGET
Requests of Civic Groups
Concentrate improvements
in Eastern Sections.
REPLACEMENTS, SITES
AND REPAIRS ASKED
Five of Structures Would Be for
Elementary Pupils Under
Suggested Program.


by the Board of Education and school
officials for inclusion in the 1910 school
budget.
The recommendations we're made
last night as about 100 representatives
of civic groups met with the school
officers and board members at the
Franklin Administration Building in
semi-annual conference to discuss the
needs of the school system.
In addition to the new schools. re-
placements for three present buildings
were asked at the Grant, Powell and
Shaw schools. but the citizens we're
informed by Mrs. Philip Sidney Smith,
member of the boards Committee on
Buildings and Grounds, that replace
ments are much harder to get than
new buildings
OF the eight new schools petitioned
for, five were elementary. to be To-
Gated in the vicinities of Eleventh and
G streets Sc, Minnesota avenue and
street Sc; in Bradbury Heights,
Fourth and Franklin streets NE. and
in the area between East Capitol and
E. streets NE. and east of Fifteenth
street NE.
Cites Lack Of School.
In making the request for this last
elementary school, J. E. Overlade of
the Northeast Citizens Association,
pointed out there is no elementary
school in that area and said the site
could probably be purchased for $780,
900 or s25 900 at minimum.
The Brookland Neighborhood Civic
Association requested a colored high
school in the area bounded by Rhode
Island avenue on the south, Twelfth
street on the west. Sixteenth street on
the east and Munroe street on the
north. Attention was called to the
large growth of the colored population
in the Northeast section of the city.
A new senior high school was re-
quested by the Kingman Park Civic
Association to take care of the colored
children in the area bounded by
Eighth street NE, New York avenue,
East Capitol street and the District
line.
Mrs. William j. Plemmons, president
Of the Anacostia Junior Senior High
School Parent-Teacher Association,
filed a plea with the officials for q new
junior high school for Anacostia. The
new school now taking care Of the
students is vastly overcrowded. she
said, and will have to go on a double
shift in September.
Site Purchase Urged.
In addition. the purchase Of sites
for an elementary school near Twenty
second street and Bunker Hill Road
NE. and a senior high school near
Sixteenth and Rhode Island avenue
was suggested by the delegate from
the Rhode Island Avenue Citizens
Association.
Other principal building requests in
cluded additions to the Smothers
School, the Randall Junior High School
and the Taft Junior High School. and
auditoriums for the Bancroft. Phillips
Wormley and the Lovejoy schools.
Heating plants were sought for the
Garfield, Stanton. Benning Schools
and Randle Heights Junior High
School.
Other requests included general re-
pair of existing facilities and expan-
sion Of recreation space. Mrs. Daniel
Murray of the Morse School Parent
Teacher Association asserted there is
special need for additional recreational
space for the colored elementary
schools in the area bounded by North
Capitol street on the east. Fifth street
on the west, K street on the south and
r street on the north. This area, she
said. has an unusually bad record from
a tuberculosis and general health
standpoint as well as from the point
OF view of juvenile delinquency.
1t was also pointed out that the
only play space available now for
students at Cardozo High School is
a section of Eighth street between r
street and Rhode Island avenue. The
purchase of block to the north of
the school was suggested to rectify
this situation.
Teacher Needs Indorsed.
Board members were notified bv
Aoeloeit Lee, member OF tne Board
OF Trade Schools Committee. that the
committee has Endorsed the teacher
needs in the schools.
William v. Mahoney of the allied
organizations also urged that the board
seek an appropriation of $3.50 to pay
for 10 lectures in the school system
on the effects of alcohol and mar.
cotics.
School officers laughed heartily
when T. c. Curry of the Burleigh
Citizens Association said his group
had held grudge against the board
for failure to get certain requests it
made. but that he now wished to make
apologies for the grudge after seeing
the way the school budget had been
manhandled.