Evening star., 1946-09-15
Budget NeedPut
AT AtS25,714,5O0
bySchoo| Board
Commissioners Get
Request S7,S93,14S
Above Current OutIoy
BY Henry A. Muslin

ilie DodIu VI EQuCdtlO0 mas
asked the Commissioners for
$25,7l4,500 to finance far
reaching program of additions
and improvements to the Dis
trict school system during the
fiscal year beginning next July |,
Budget Officer Walter E. Fowler
announced yesterday.
Greater by S7,893,14S than the
appropriation for schools for the
current fiscal year, the request calls
for a capital outlay of 1869 900 for
construction, furnishing and equip
ment of buildings. This is s5,785,62o
above that being spent this fiscal
year for the same purposes.
Major portion-s6. $50 ,0OO-of the
outlay is earmarked for construction
or completion of % school buildings
and drafting of plans for six others.
while another 81 900 900 is asked for
the purchase of sites for another
10 schools.
Administration Building Planned.
Among the planned structures Is
a S1,05o,000 administration building
for the Board of Education itself,
which now makes its headquarters
at the Franklin School but has
various Offices and files scattered
among 10 other buildings. An ex-
penditure of S22,O50 for preliminary
specifications for the administration
building, a site for which will be
determined later, Is requested.
The remaining $819 600 of capital
outlay would go toward furniture
and equipment for existing and
planned schools and offices.
The board asked for s17145, 900
to finance its operating expenses,
including Sll ,469, 900 for the work
OF supervising instruction in the
schools. The operating costs request
is s2,1o7,52 greater than the sum.
appropriated for the fiscal year 1s47.
SO New Teachers Sought.
Important among the items listed
under operating costs was a request
for SO new teachers for the colored
schools In asking for the addi-
tlonal teachers, Superintendent of
Schools Hobart M Corning said they
would reduce seriously overcrowded
condition.
DR.. Corning estimated adding the
W teachers woul cost the city an
other S2l8,0o0 annually, but pointed
out that there has been a marked
shortage of instructors for the COL
ored schools and that their presence
still would not guarantee the re-
qulred teacher-pupil ratio of / to 2s.
Inc board plans to allocate 50 Of
the requested teachers to Junior
high schools. 33 to elementary
schools and % to senior high schools.
Principals Aids Sought.
Salaries for four new assistant
principals at Anacostia, Coolidge
and Dunbar High Schools and Ran
dali Junior High School, all Of
which are expected to exceed an
enrolment of 1900, were asked, as
were funds necessary to obtain both
principal and assistant principal
Tor two junior high schools and a
principal for one elementary school
scheduled for completion during the
coming fiscal year.
Addition of "a engineers to tn.
schools staff was sought in order to
place all these employees on a 40
hour week. The S63,861 cost OF
their combined yearly salaries would
be more than compensated for by
the reduction in overtime pay, it was
pointed out.
School officials also would pro-
vide 20 new clerical assistants to
principals of white and colored ele-
mentary schools to relieve them of
excessive clerical work, which con-
sumes 33 per cent of their time.
Giving the principals this help
would enable them to adhere to a
planned procedure under which they
would devote 10 per cent of their
time to supervisory affairs and 80
per cent to administrative details,
it was said
Three Items Carried Over.
Increasing juvenile delinquency
and 300 per cent rise in the num-
Der of temporary teachers over the
past four years were cited as rea-
sons demanding more attention to
supervision on the part of the ele-
mentary principals.
Three items recommended under
See SrrJ0OT 9 Donn A.