Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-07-06
Senate Due Plea
For $757,559
Cut by House
BY HARRIET GRIFFITHS
Star Staff Writer

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District school officials will
seek to have some $757,559 re-
stored by the Senate to the
House-cut city budget for this
fiscal year.
School needs they will ask
reinStated include:
An additional 81 teachers at
the elementary and junior high
school levels.
Fourteen counselorS for ele-
mentary and secondary schools
and six clerks to improve eff
ficiency in administrative Of
ficeS.
Funds to provide matching
money to continue in a Ford
Foundation project to improve
education for culturally de-
prived children.
Funds to allow the District
to continue in the Ford Foun-
dation Greater Cities" project.
S95S,OOO Trimmed
The House trimmed some
S953,000 from the $57.770,000
school operating budget as it
went to the Capitol.
School Supt. Carl F. Hansen
expressed qualification at the
stand of Senator Humphrey,
Democrat of Minnesota, who
took the Senate floor Tuesday
to plead for additional funds to
replace obsolete textbooks and
upgrade school libraries, and
also plugged for restoration of
the teaching positions deleted
by the House.
Senator Humphrey said he
would urge his colleagues to
provide an extra $l35, 426 to
replace obsolete textbooks. Sem
atorS could initiate and make
this addition, but at this point
in the budget procedure it is
not customary for city officials
to add an extra item to the
budget which went through
channels to the Capitol.
DR.. Hansen said school Off
Gals would certainly supply the
information and support such
an addition. But he said he
did not want to see this done
at the expense of the needed
teachers. 1t might be feasible,
he added, to supply at least
part of the textbook replace
ments from savings if author
ity is given.
81 Teachers Sought
DR.. Hansen has said that
school officials would appeal
for restoration of all but seven,
of the teacher jobs cut from
the budget, or a total of 81.
The schools had sought 297
more teachers, but this was
trimmed by the House to 1893.
The new teachers would al
low a slight reduction of ele-
mentary class sizes and keep
junior high school pupil-teach-
er ratios at present levels. DR..
Hansen said the Commissioners
have decided not to press for
seven high school teaching jobs
deleted by the House.
Denial of $4,000 cut by the
House from the school budget
may mean the end of the Ford
Foundation-backed project in
nine central-city schools de-
signed to improve education for
culturally deprived children
through intensive language arts
work, said Louis H. Kornhaus-
err, director.
Can't Use Savings
The House also denied school
officials permission to pay city
matching funds from savings.
The progam, which began
on a trial basis in January,
1860, is designed to fight delin-
quency and dropouts stemming
from unsuccessful school expe-
rience beginning in the early
grades.
Last year, $4,000 was pro-
vided from the foundation, but
a quota of $28,344 in matching
local funds was not made. For
this school year. the schools
are seeking $79,070 to match a
Ford Foundation grant of $685.
900. 1t is hoped to add five
more schools to the program,
and reach some students from
public housing developments.
So far, $500 students from
kindergarten to second grade,
as well as teachers and par
entS, have been involved in the
project, which Mr.. Kornhauser
said has already shown graft
flying results in the children's
ability to express themselves.
Youngsters who formerly re-
Sponded in class in monoSylla-
bles are now speaking more
spontaneously and in complete
sentences, he noted.
Washington is one of nine
cities participating in the foun-
dation's Great Cities Gray
Areas School Improvement
Program.
Creative instruction
One of its features is "crea-
tive" instruction by language
arts teachers. 1t seeks to en-
large the cultural experience of
children from deprived homes,
including art and music pro-
grams and trips to the farm
and the nature center.
Parents of the children are
drawn into the program where
possible so that a whole family
can share the experience.
DR.. Hansen also considers
highly important the reStora-
ton of SO, 900 to allow the Dis
trict continued participation
with other large cities in the
Ford Foundation Greater
Cities" joint conference study.
This project goes into the
common problems of large ur-