Evening star., 1948-02-19
boardCondemlns
Bills 10 Expand
History Study
AdeIbert w. Lee
Is Lone Dissenter
On Corning Reports
BY Colt Hendley, Jr.

The O'Konski bill and the Miller
resolution, setting up new history
teaching standards in the public
schools here, today stood officially
condemned by the Board of Edu-
cation.
With one dissenting vote, the
board yesterday adopted School
Supt. Hobart NJ Cornings report
against the proposals presented by
the two members of Congress. Dis
senting again was Board Member
Adelbert w. Lee.
The resolution, introduced by
Representative Miller, Republican,
of Nebraska who is chairman of the
District Subcommittee on Education,
would require the school officials to
expand greatly the amount of Amer
ican history and Constitution taught
in the schools here. The other meas
ure, introduced by Representative
O'Konski, Republican, of Wisconsin
last year is similar but has been re-
placed, more or less, by the Miller
resolution.
Minority Report Presented.
Mr.. Lee presented a minority re-
port in favor of the two measures,
as chairman of the Legislation Com
mittee of the board, which last
week came out against them.
DR.. Robert A. Maurer started the
only argument over the boards &C
tion by commenting that Mr.. Lee
and his friend" Franklin T..
Miles, would have saved board men,
bers a lot of time if they had
submitted their recommendations to
the board, rather than directly to
the House committee. He was re-
ferring to the fact that Mr.. Miles,
an attorney, was instrumental in
the drafting of the two bills under
discussion.
Mr.. Lee interrupted to say:
IT resent the comments of Dr..
Maurer. There is no indication that
Mr.. Miles is my counsel in this
matter"
He added that he wished the
board members would treat mat
ters with dignities and forget per-
sonalities"
Two Teachers Retired.
In other actions, the board retired
two teachers, voted that DR.. James
A. Gannon's proposal to transfer the
school medical inspection service and
nurses from the Public Health De-
partment to the Board of Education
be kept under consideration until
meeting with the Commissioners
could be arranged to discuss the
matter and adopted report which
told Congress why operating costs
of the Washington schools are
higher than in most school systems
The report on operating costs was
requested by the Commissioners as
result of a request from the House
Appropriations Committee.
Teachers retired were:
Mrs. Henrietta F. Childs, 1877 81
street NV, first aid assistant at
Cardozo High School, after 20 years
service. Mrs. Childs is at present
on the Board of Directors of the
Phyllis Wheatley YWCA.
Miss Carroll Retired.
Miss Frances C. Carroll. 1015
Johnson street NE, teacher, ele-
mentary schools, after 81 years of
service. because of physical disabil-
ity. Miss Carroll is now on leave of
absence because of i'll health.
DR.. Corning also submitted re-
port on part time classes in the Dis
trict, showing that there are now
1854 children in the white ele-
mentary and Junior high schools on
part-time instruction and 1902 in
the colored schools. In 1916, there
were 254 white students and 7,150
colored children going to school part
time because of lack of classroom
space.