Evening star., 1938-01-05
FIVE NEW SCHOOLS
ALLOWED FOR D. c.
Only Two Elementary lnsti.
tutions Provided to Meet
Congestion.

The District will receive only two
new elementary schools, one white and
one colored. with which to meet its
problems of pupil congestion, accord
ing to the estimates forwarded to Con.
gress today as part Of the 1889 District
budget.
The two new items call for white
elementary school of eight rooms on
the present Petworth playground at
Third and Hamilton streets NV, and
a colored elementary school. to consist
OF an eight-room extensible building
with combination acknowledgements
ium, on site in the vicinity of First
and Pierece streets NV. to replace the
old Jones School at First and L streets
NV. which becomes a health center
site next month.
Only 3 other projects out of nearly
| 80 construction items requested by the
Board Of Education received Budget
Bureau approval. These are the new
Calvin Coolidge Senior High School. the
Banneker Junior High School and the
Lenox Vocational School, initial funds
for all three of which are carried In the
1888 appropriations. Plans have not
been completed yet for any of these
three items.
Although the total amount allowed
by the bureau, sl3,328,076, is more
than $500,000 above the 1888 ap-
preparation of s12.S0O.725 it is still
some S5,500,000 less than the sl8,-
858,939 originally sought by the board.
Requests by the board for land
purchase funds Jared badly, with the
approval of only of 20 requested
items, principal of which was $4,000
for a site for junior high school and
elementary school purposes in the
vicinity of Mount Olivet road and
Bladensburg road NE. The other two
land items surviving we're a S17.500
request for additional land for building
purposes in the vicinity of First and
Pierce streets NV. and s2,500 for
land for physical education purposes
at the Douglass-S Simmons School.
S4,696,450 for Buildings Asked.
In its estimates submitted last
August the board asked for s4,696, ,45o
for building and 81 ,562, 500 for grounds.
The bureau approved only sl,583,l50
for the construction and but $4,000
for the sites. The 1888 appropriation
! for grounds was nearly three times
, that contemplated for 1899.
Maintenance and operation Of the
school system, on the other hand Jared
better. Out of items totaling s12,59e.-
989 submitted by the board. the bureau
approved total of Sl1,674,926.
Despite the plea by DR.. Frank w.
Ballou, superintendent of schools,
| that addition of number of clerks
would release teachers now PERFORM
! ing various kinds of clerical work
| to the classroom. the clerical item
/ received the largest cut in the oper-
| alton and maintenance estimates. The
board asked for S2983O0, the bureau
approved Sl80980. This latter figure,
however, represents a s720 increase
over last year.
Center Request Cut.
Fifty thousand dollars was also
| slashed from the community center
! estimates. the current appropriation
Of 100000 being reapproved.
In a single instance, the teachers
retirement appropriated fund. the
School Board request of 100000 was
raised to $4,000
Principal feature of the building
| estimates was the omission of a
recommended 1925, 900 item for the
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Junior
High School and Library. for which
a 1888 appropriation was made in
both the school and Public Library
! budgets.
In winning approval Of the Jones
School replacement, the school Off
cials were pleased. The old building
at First and L streets NV. must be
evacuated by some 800 colored chill
dren by February l, when it becomes
the site for the new health center,
and the officers have been anxious
that provision be made for such
replacement. The bureau estimates
carry not only funds for an eight
room extensible building. which the
school officers hope to extend even-
tually into new Terrell Junior High
School, but also funds for purchase
of additional land.
Noticeable also were the items
affecting handicapped children in
which, except for single instance,
the board estimates were the same
as the current appropriation and were
approved. In that one case the
board asked $4,000 for transporta-
ton of crippled, blind and tubercular
children, which the bureau cut to
the $22, 500 allowed for 1888.