Evening star., 1940-08-11
S8,346,369 Asked
For District Schools
In 1912 Fiscal Year
!. : 5,56l AIT for New
i Buildings and Sites Is
/. Largest Increase
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partments will fall more heavily
than ever upon the Commissioners
Z The nine new schools called fol-
Include a senior high school al
tTwenty-fourth street and Benning
road NE, elementary school to re-
splace the Cranch-Tyler and Van
.Ness Schools, elementary school to
replace the Brent, Dent and French
Schools, elementary school near
Minnesota avenue and Ely place
Sc, elementary school at Bladens-
burg and Mount Olivet roads NE
Elementary school in the vicinity OF
Thirteenth and Van Buren, streets
NV, elementary school on the site
of the old Dennison Vocational
School, junior high school in the
Vicinity of Massachusetts, avenue
and Macomb street NV, and the
new Abbot.
m Elementary Requirements.
= The requirements in the elemen-
tary field will substitute modern
large school buildings for the pres
.ent eight-room structures which
have become outmoded as educa-
.tional units. AS the result of sur
.vey regular replacement sched-
ule has been developed.
6 Plans for special school for
both the white and colored handi-
capped children are requested as a
result of long study by the boards
Advisory Committee on Handicap
ped Children during the last year
Plans for a new Wilson Teachers
College, which with the new Abbot
came close to getting in the pres
ent budget, are again asked as well
as plans for a new Miner Teachers
College and new Junior high at
Forty ninth street and Washing
ton place NE.
Continuing the replacement pro-
gram, plans also are sought to re-
place the Morse-Twining Schools
the Walker-Jones Schools and the
Ambush-Smallwood. Blueprints for
an addition to Armstrong High
School are requested.
i Funds to build several assembly
hall gymnasiums and a 10-room ad-
dition to Taft Junior High are called
for. Those which would get the as
sembly hall gymnasiums are the
Lovejoy, the Harrison, the M. NJ
Washington Vocational, the Phelps
Vocational and Browne Junior High
Browns would get an inclined floor
for its auditorium and a gymnasium.
A stadium for the new Calvin Coo
lidge High School also would be pro-
vided.
Land Sites Asked.
The following land sites are asked ::
For an elementary school at Min
nesota avenue and Ely place Sc;
elementary school at Pennsylvania
and Alabama avenues Sc; element
airy school at Alabama avenue and
Forty-fourth street Sc; elementary
school at Forty-siXth and Daven-
port streets NV; elementary school
at Fourth street and Rhode Island
avenue NE; elementary school in
the Brookland area; elementary
school in the vicinity of the present
Walker-J schools; replacement
of the Morse -Twining School near
New Jersey avenue and P street
NV: replacement of the Ambush
Smallwood in the vicinity of the
Smallwood School; new Abbot voca-
tional; junior high at Kansas ave-
nue. and Gallatin street NV; junior
high adjacent to the recreation GEN.
ter at Forty-ninth street and Wash
ington place NE; addition to the
Armstrong High School; new Miner
Teachers College; schools for the
white and colored handicapped chill
dren; land adjoining the Greenlea1
School for physical education pur.