Evening star., 1940-09-12
School Heads
Will Justify
1912 Budget
Need for $4,000, 900
Increase Will Be
Given Commissioners

School officials plan to go before
the Commissioners about the end
of next week to justify their 1912
budget estimates of more than s18,-
00,000-an increase of some Sc, 5,000,-
600 over current appropriations.
Acting Supt. Robert L. Haycock
told the Board of Education at its
opening meeting of the new school
year yesterday that advices from
the District Building indicated they
would be called before the city
heads at that time.
The board members devoted most
of the first session to clearing up
miscellaneous business which de-
Veloped during the summer recess.
A number of administrative reor-
ganizations were approved, as were
several transfers and promotions of
officers.
Approval was also given a plan
to introduce for the first time in
the new Calvin Coolidge High
School a requirement of five periods
of physical education, as compared
with the two such periods now pre-
vailing in the other high schools
each week. This would mean a
physical education period each day
for students at Coolidge, Asst. Supt.
Chester w. Holmes told the board.
Plan Not Experiment"
DR.. Holmes denied the plan was
an experiment" saying that it had
been approved by the board some
time ago and that only lack of
funds for sufficient teachers had
prevented its introduction in the
other high schools. He emphasized
that this new plan did not mean
five weekly periods of gymnasium
but that some of it would be health
instruction.
DR.. Holmes said that Birch Bayh,
director of health and physical edu-
cation in the white schools had been
working on program this summer.
He added that only because early
enrolment at the new school would
not fill it to capacity would it be
possible to work it there. He in
dicated that as the enrolment grows,
requests for additional physical edu-
cation teachers will have to be made
IN the school budget or else revert
to the present limited schedule for
physical education.
The members postponed dedica-
ton of Coolidge until March or
pending completion of the girls
gymnasium being completed under
separate contract.
Lunches Will Be Available.
Mr.. Haycock notified the board
that free school lunches would again
be made available to needy school
children this year as in the past
and reported that the Board of Pub
lie Welfare was ready for the in
struction of the shut-in children,
which was placed under that agency
by the present budget.
A survey of the citizenship status
Of the teachers revealed 40 were
born in foreign countries and all
but one of these has acquired cit
izenship papers, Mr.. Haycock said.
Arrangements are in progress for the
1CIlI Vi IIl1O ICdSllC1, Ilc Sdlu,
since she is of retirement age.
On recommendation of the Per-
sonnel Committee, the board voted
to dissolve the Gage Henry Polk
school group and the Brookland-
Bunker Hill-Noyes group as admin
istrative units and establish in their
places the Henry-Polk unit, the
Gage-Noyes group and the Brook
land-Bunker Hill group.
Miss Belt Is Promoted.
These -egroupings resulted in the
transfer of Miss Bertha E. Taylor
from administrative principal of the
Gage-Henry-P0lk to administrative
of the Henry-Polk, and Miss Grace
Bush from administrative principal
of the Brookland-Bunker Hill-Noyes,
to administrative principal of the
Gage-Noyes. Miss E. A. Belt was
promoted from teaching principal of
the Stanton School to administra-
tive principal of the Brookland-
Bunker Hill combination.
At the same time Miss Edith M.
Williams, teaching principal of the
Shepherd School, was promoted to
administrative principal of the Car
bery-Ludlow combination, and Miss
M. H. Stohlman was moved up from
teaching principal at the Amidon
School to administrative principal
of the Fairbrother- -Rossell combina-
ton. Both of these posts were va
Gated through retirements.
To replace Miss Stohlman at
Anidon, the board consolidated the
Langdon and Woodbridge Schools
under Miss K P. Scrivener, admin
istrative principal of the Langdon,
and transferred Miss G. F. Barnard
from teaching principal at the
Woodbridge to teaching principal at
the Amidon.
Tuition Rates Higher.
Tuition rates established by the
board for nonresident pupils not
entitled to free tuition were slightly
higher for the coming year than
they were last year. Based on the
per capita cost of operating the
school system-that is. teachers SAL
aries and materials-the rates for
this year are: Teachers College,
S249.75; senior high school, s11152;
junior high school, $89 g; voca-
tional school. $13620; elementary
schools, $64.73; vacation schools,
SAP, and night schools, $5.s7
All but the night school rate ex-