Evening star., 1938-08-07
BY DON S. WARREN.

Displaying a determination to gain
funds to catch up with accumulated
demands, the Board Of Education yes
terday submitted to the Commission
ers budget estimates for the 1910 fiscal
year totaling $18,923,1l0-an increase
of 48 per cent over current appropria-
tions.
School officials stressed the need
for a long-range development plan,
as we'll as means Of meeting current
necessities, in requesting approval Of
"a building projects costing $4,247, 400
and 20 items for land purchase esti-
mated to total 100000.
Both Mrs. Marion Wade Doyle, pres
ident Of the Board of Education, and
DR.. Frank w. Ballou, superintendent
of schools. protested that appropria-
tions in recent years have been made
quate either to meet current demands
or to catch up with the backlog of
needs.
In their estimates, school officials
made repeated declarations concern
ing the lack Of suf1cient physical IA
cilities, teachers, administrative per-
sonnel and clerks and custodians.
They also protested the lack Of fore
sight in failure to provide funds for
purchase of needed school sites before
developments boosted their cost.
Increased Stats Asked.
The board requested an increase Of
2l3 in the staff of teachers and libra
rians, which would cost $334.S00 and
provision Of 80 additional clerks, at q
cost of $46,9s4.
The requests amount approximately
to the sum sought by the board year
ago. which was slashed by some
$6.100.o00. The sum requested for the
next fiscal year for land purchase is
nearly 40 times the item of $52.500
granted for this year. The item sought
for the building program is more than
81, 600 900 in excess Of the sum granted
for this year.
Many of the school building items
suggested for inclusion in the P. w.
A. program were placed in the regular
1910 estimates because of uncertainty
as to what projects would be pro-
vided with P. w. A. funds, officials
said. They added that any projects
finally approved in the P. w. A. plan
would be stricken from the school
estimates.
DR.. Ballou recalled that school Of
ficials had suggested for the P. w. A.
plan projects costing some $500 900.
but that he had no official word of
what the Commissioners had sug-
gested or what were likely to meet
with the approval of the P. w. A.
A check-up showed the Commits
sioners had requested p. w. A. funds
for is "urgently-needed" items hav-
ing a total cost of about $4,000, 900.
To date, the P. w. A. has voiced infor-
NAL approval for eight Of these items
costing 100000.
New Senior High Sought.
Aside from a long list of elementary
school items, the boards proposals
call for funds for a new senior high
school and stadium at Twenty-fourth
street and Benning road NE; a new
junior high for Anacostia, sums to
complete the Calvin Coolidge High
School and the new Jefferson Junior
High School and Library, and for
plans for a new Wilson Teacher Col
lege.
Funds also are sought for sites for a
new high school on Rhode Island
avenue NE, a new Cardozo High
School, q new Miner Teacher Col
lege, new junior high school near
Massachusetts avenue and Macomb
street NV, and another at Kansas
avenue and Gallatin street NV.
The School Board submitted an
urgent" request for elimination Of the
legislative rider" carried in this
years appropriation act which pro-
vides that the average of the salaries
paid librarians in the schools shall
not exceed the average Of the salaries
(see SCHOOL BUDGET. Page A-e)