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DC. Schools
Ask $44 Million
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mended school figure of $43,-
979.500 is about $50 million
larger than the budget for the
current fiscal year.
The construction budget is
spread over nine major projects,
with an additional 100000 for
various permanent improvements
to present schools.
The most costly project is a
new 81 million senior high
school, to be built in the Con-
gress Heights area in the South
east. The others are:
A $938,000 elementary school
near Texas avenue and c street
Sc: a 81 million elementary
school near Mount Olivet road
and Holbrook street NE; a
$563,000 addition to Taft Jun
Tor High School, Eighteenth and
Perry streets NE; additions to
Payne Elementary. Fifteenth and
c streets Sc, and Moten Ele-
mentary, Evans and Morris roads
Sc.
Also, site and plan money
fer a new elementary school
near Tenth and F. streets NE:
playground space for a school
now under way at Fifty-sixth
and Eads street NE, and a
$1.180,000 school warehouse to
be built near Adams street and
Queens Chapel road NE.
r The Commissioners turne d
down proposals for a new school
administration building, replace
ment of Hine Junior High School,
and additions for Phelps and
Washington Vocational Hig h
Schools and Randall Junior High
School. However, school officials
have proposed consolidating all
vocational schools in a new $40
million building. and alternative
solutions to the problem of hous-
Ing the school headquarters also
are under study by the city.
Amidon- Greenleaf Delayed
a A projected new Amidon-
Greenleaf Elementary School in
the Southwest was postponed be-
cause of delays in redevelopment
of the area. In its place, the
Commissioners substituted the
projected Mount Olivet road
school.
School leaders regard the rec
commended ST million worth of
new elementary teachers as a
special milestone.
officials plan next year to seek
whatever number of additional
teachers is needed to reach the
final goal of 80 pupils per class.
Commissioner Mclaughlin told
The Star today that he could
not predict what response this
will get from the Commissioners.
The city heads have acted only
with respect to one budget, he
said, explaining that no COM
mitment has been made either
by himself or his two colleagues
to move on from 80 pupils to the
school objective of 80.
He added. however. that as
far as the present three Com
missioners are concerned he feels
there will be no attempt to re-
treat from the new figure of
80. Thus, assuming that Con-
gress approves, the school system
by next September will have ac-
complished two-thirds of the
class-size Improvement program,
whatever happens afterwards.
Other Recommendations
Besides this major step, the
budget recommendations provide
for:
Eleven new vocational high
school teachers, including six to
man shops which The Star dis
closed last spring were unused
because of lack of staff.
Five remedial reading teach
ers. eight speech correction
teachers and three special teach
ers for the mentally retarded,
all for elementary schools.
Eighteen psychologists and
clerks and additional funds for
the testing program, to over
come a backlog in reporting on
test results and aid in diagnos-
ing and correcting individual
psychological learning problems.
Six new elementary super
visors, doubling the present
total, to aid in improving in
struction throughout the city.
The lack of enough supervisors
was first spotlighted last spring
nv Tho Gfor