Evening star., 1938-03-24
SCHOOL OFFICIALS
|FAC|NCFURl0UGHS
UNDER FUNDS CUT
Slash of $74,O16 From D. c.
Supply Bill May Bring
PayIess Days.
SAVINGS IN OTHER SPOTS
BELIEVED IMPOSSIBLE
Tangle Caused by Reduction in
Belief Item Would Be
Restored Elsewhere.

School officials may have to be fur
loughed without pay at times during
the next fiscal year to compensate for
a slash of s74,016 from the District
supply bill, salary items for teachers.
administrators and clerks, as approved
by Senate and House conferees.
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
yesterday that failure to restore these
funds brings the salary item appropri-
alton below legal obligations. He said
he cid not see how the difference can
be made up in savings elsewhere in the
school system and mentioned possible
furloughs for school officers.
The superintendent said he did not
know exactly what the deficit in the
salary item would be, but was sure the
item would be below obligations. He
told the board he would make de-
tailed study OF the matter and report
soon.
Slashed from Item.
The financial tangle was caused by
the action of the House in slashing
the s74,016 from the general salary
item in the belief that this amount
would be restored to the schools in
Federal funds from the George-Deen
Vocational Education Act of 1886.
Scnool officials pointed out to the
Senate the deduction was made from
the general teacher salary item, where
as George-Deen funds are applicable
only to salaries of teachers qualified to
teach the various trades.
In addition, it was cited that more
than half of the deduction from the
day school teacher salary item applied
to night school teachers who are not
paid out OF the general appropriation
for teacher salaries.
The Senate acceded to the request
for restoration of the sum, but it was
thrown out again in conference.
Included also in the superintendent
budget report was the fact the re-
strictive language regarding the site
| of the new Jefferson Junior High
School in Southwest Washington has
been eliminated.
| School officials had been much dis
turbed over the language in the ap-
preparation bill requiring the school
site to be east of Seventh street when
the District already held title to some
land west of Seventh street intended
as the school site. The restriction,
they told the Senate, practically
would compel construction of the new
school on land adjacent to the pres
| ent school which would be of ques-
tionable desirability because of the
nearness to railroad tracks and the
shape of the land itself.
The new language allows the school
to be built without restriction as to
the area in Southwest Washington
within which said building may be
located"
The board approved approximately
a dozen groups of activities for which
fees are payable by students and agreed
to set date in the near future for con-
ference with citizens regarding the
1910 school budget.
Acting on complaint of the Inter-
national Union of Operating Engineers
that violation of the smoke regulations
cannot be avoided because of the quail
ity of the fuel burned in school fur
naces, DR.. Ballou and Assistant Supt.
Jere j. Crane will take up the matter
with the Bureau of Mines with refer
ence to the type of coal delivered to
the schools and proper operation of
the heating equipment.