Evening star., 1946-01-21
Seven New Schools
Provided in Budget
Despite Reductions
By MARION WADE DOYLE.

get for 1947 was sent 10 the CapltoI
today as a part of the giant $Sl,-
sos 900 District estimates for the
next fiscal year.
The figure represents an increase
of more than 81 4,000, 900 over appro-
priations for this year and calls for
construction of seven new schools,
plans for three others, two additions
and one remodeling.
School officials declared, however,
that despite the record amount Of
the approved estimates, they still
left unsolved many of the over
crowding and undertaking worries.
The school budget took the heav-
lest slashing- 80, ,424 ,420-among all
the original estimates submitted by
District department heads. The
losses included 100000 worth Of
construction items, intended to re-
place old elementary schools and to
provide stadiums, assembly halls and
gymnasiums intended for both pupil
and community recreation.
A most serious" cut in person.
mel appropriations will rob the COL
ored schools of half the go new
teachers needed to handle increased
enrollments and several new schools,
DR.. Garnet C. Wilkinson, assistant
superintendent, said.
Some Crowded Relief Seen.
On the other hand, some of the
crucial overcrowding of white and
colored pupils in Northeast and
Southeast Washington will be re-
lleved, officials pointed out. More
funds are provided for the much
discussed Sousa Junior High School.
to take the load off the iammed
Kramer Junior High School for
white children in Southeast Wash
ington. About $4,000 is provided
to raise the total appropriation for
the new Bell Vocational High School
to nearly 100000.
For colored children, the appropri-
alton would provide an increase to
S2,0oO,OOO for the Spingarn High
School; construction funds for three
large elementary schools in North
east Washington and the Miller
Junior High School at Forty-ninth
street and Washington place. NE.
Despite cuts the request differs
Sharply from wartime budget esti-
mates, which stressed buying sites
While building materials were un-
available. Jere J. Crane, assistant
superintendent in charge of build
ings, who had hoped that the l947
stress ON construction would remain
untouched by the Commissioners.
still was able to see a bright side
TO the reduction of the building
fund to total of s3,790,30O.
Materials and labor are still so
tight that prehaps we couldn't have
built the schools anyway" he said.
Reason for Cuts Awaited.
| Robert L. Haycock, superintendent
OF schools, said he is waiting to see
II budget officials cut the building
funds primarily because of material
shortages or if these officials con-
slider the new schools unnecessary
All the buildings requested are es-
Sential to the system and 1t would
be unfortunate" If they are not
provided for in the near future, Mr.
Haycock said.
| Construction items omitted IN
clude repair of the 60-year-old
Western High School; replacement
OF the aging Hine Junior High
School; replacement of the Terrell
Junior High School, an ancient
crowded school for colored; replace
ment Of the Amidon Fairbrother
and Greenleaf Elementary School
for colored children, slated for the
discard since 1881, and plans for
new administration building to
supplant the Franklin School.
Provision to build stadiums at
the Coolidge and Spingarn High
Schools and to draw plans for sta
diums at Armstrong and Dunbar
High Schools also were omitted.
New classroons and assembly-gym-
nasiums were deleted for several
colored elementary schools.
Besides the colored teachers, the
schools lost new clerk positions at
headquarters and in about one
fourth of the so elementary schools.
Funds for a site for replacement
for the Cardoza High School for
colored children also was dropped.
Constructed Items Listed
| 1temized school construction pro-
vided for are: $4,000 for the
sl,l90,o 900 Bell Vocational School
$780, 900 for the Sousa Junior High
School, Thirty-seventh street and
Ely place Sc; $200,760 addition
and gymnasium for the Taft Junior
High School; a s242 500 addition
to the Logan Elementary School:
$3.50 900 for the $500 900 replacement
of the Cranch and Tyler Schools
at Eleventh and G streets Sc: a
$4,000 addition to the Banneker
Junior High School; $500 900 to be-
gin the s1,135 900 Miller Junior High
School; $4,000 for an addition and
cafeteria for the Randall Junior
High School; $4,000 for an addition
to the Kimball School, and s430, 900
for an elementary school in the
vicinity Fifty-third and Blaine
streets NE.
Funds are provided to plan the
alterations at Western High
School; for a new auditorium at
the Shaw Junior High School; a
24-room building to replace the
Amidon, Fairbrother and Greenleaf
Schools; 24-room building to re-
place the Walker-Jones Elementary
Schools; 14-room building to re-
place the Peabody Hilton Schools:
16-room replacement of the STAN
ton School: 17-room addition to the
Anacostia Senior High School, and
stadiums at the Coolidge and Spin
garn High Schools.
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