Evening Star Newspaper, December 20, 1928, Page 40

40 FVEVEAR SHDOL PROGRAM PRASED Board of Education Adopts Bill for Presentation " to Congress. A second five-year school building pro- gram calling for expenditures totaling $5,750,000 and designed “to continue and extend the purpose of the first 5- | year school building act for another five-year period” in order to provide the District with adequate school facilities, was approved by the Board of Educa- tion at its regular meeting in the Franklin Administration Building late yesterday afternoon. ‘The draft of the proposed bill, as it was prepared by the School Board's legislation committee, under the chair- manship of Henry L. Gilligan, was ordered transmitted to the District Commissioners for their presentation through the Bureau of the Budget to the current session of Congress. Designed specifically to “continue and extena wne purpose” of Lie first five-year building program, the building schedule approved by the School Board yesterday actually augments and merges with the now seriously retarded initial program so that it virtually forms a single pro- to cost approximately $10,780,750. In a statement issued concurrent with the action of the board yesterday, Dr. Frank W. Ballou, superintendent of schools, pointed out that while the first program authorized the expenditure of $20,185,000, only $11,869,250 had been appropriated as through June 30, 1929, leaving to date, $8,315,750 yet to be appropriated to complete the first pro- gram. The buildings and grounds items in the 1930 budget now before Congress, total $1,960,000, whi if appropriatet 1330 G St—HOMER L. KITT CO.—1330 G St. MORE WONDERFUL PIANO BARGAINS Placed on Our Floors for the Friday and Saturday Buyers LAST DAYS OF HOMER L. KITT CO. Sale of would leave a balance of $6,355,750 under the first program. Certain sav- ings through lower costs of construction and change of conditions since the first program was drafted, Dr. Ballou said, would total $1,325,000, leaving a net balance to be appropriated under the first act of $5,030,750. This figure, added to the $5,750,000 as estimated cost of the program, furnishes the grand total of $10,780,750 needed for the schools by June 30, 1935. Some Items Debatable. ‘This figure conicides with the state- ment of Dr. Charles F. Carusi, School Board president, at the conference a week ago between the school authorities and citizen group representatives, to the >ffect that $15,000,000 would be required to bring the local school system up to |date. Dr. Carusi declared then, how- |ever, ‘ that since many of the items | which made up the $15,000,000 total | were “debatable,” any one who knows | anything about the situation knows |that at least two-thirds of that total represents a minimum of actual and pressing needs.” The second five-year building pro- gram includes, in brief, 7 additional | elementary school sites, 16 elementary | school buildings, 2 junior high school | sites, 2 junior high school buildings, 5 | junior high school building additions, | 3 senior high school sites and building | additions to an already existing senior | high school. In addition to these items, | the program includes a number of play- | ground sites and several parcels of land | for additional construction at present | elementary school buildings. While the items as a whole are located in widely separated regions of the Dis- trict, the greatest efforts to obtain re- lief appeared to be in the first division, which embraces the Chevy Chase area. This school division alone would receive four mew elementary school buildings and sites for two such structures. Purposes Are Stated. In the bill which the Board of Educa- | tion seeks to have presented to the present session of Congress, so that it may become effective to cover the years from July 1, 1939, to June 30, 1935, it is clearly stated that the purpose of the | new act is to provide adequate school | facilities for the District. Its purpose cifically is: GRAND PIANOS PLAYER PIANOS UPRIGHT PIANOS Slightly Used— Reconditioned— Second Hand As Low as a Month No Mail on These Free Stool, Strich & Zeidler...... Schomacker .. Free Duet $371—$55—565 $100—$165 $210—$365 Two more days to get your Christmas Piano —Friday and Saturday gives you the chance to “make your dream come true’—get a reglly splendid used Player or a Grand at a price so low that anyone could afford it. Among them you will find Knabes, Chicker- ings, Mason & Hamlin and other well-known makes. 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C, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1928. “To eliminate and avoid the use of portables; to eliminate and avoid the For the purchase of land adjoining the Murch School for playground pur- use of rented buildings; to_ eliminate | poses. and avoid the use of undesirable rooms; to keep elementary school classes to a standard of not more than 40 &upfls per class; to provide a five-hour day of instruction for elementary school pupils, thereby eliminating and avoiding part- time classes; to abandon all school buildings recommended for early abandonment in 1908; to abandon other school buildings which have be- come unfit for further use since 1908; to provide a full day of instruction for high school puplls, thereby eliminating and avoiding the ‘double shift’ and short day program in the high schools; to provide for the annual increase in enrollment of pupils during the period from July 1, 1930, to June 30, 1935, and, in general, to provide in the District of Columbia a program of schoolhouse construction which shall exemplify the best in schoolhouse planning, school- house construction and educational accommodations.” The item which would be provided under the second five-year school- building program follow in detail ac- cording to school system divisions: Division 1. Elementary schools: For the purchase of a site in Burleith or vicinity on which to locate a new 16-room school building, ultimately to replace the Fillmore School. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combi- nation gymnasium and assembly hall, on a site to be purchased in Burleith or vicinity to relieve the Fillmore School. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a com- | in bination gymnasium and assembly hall on a site at Thirty-first street and Broad Branch road now owned by the District of Columbia. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a com- bination gymnasium and assembly hall on a site to be purchased in Wesley | Helghts. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combi- nation gymnasium and assembly hall on a site already authorized to be pur- sed in the vicinity of Connecticut nue and Upton street. 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For the construction of one wing to the junior high school authorized to be erected in the Reno section in ac- cordance with the plans of the typical junior high school. Division IIL Elementary schools: For the purchase of a site in the vicinity of the Keene School to provide for the replacement and enlargement of that school building. For the erection of an eight-room extensible building, including a combi- nation gymnasium and assembly hall on a site to be purchased in the vicinity of the Keene School. For the construction of an eight- room addition to replace the original four rooms of the Truesdell School, making the Truesdell School a 16-room building of the modern type, including the necessary remodeling of the present building. For the construction of an eight-room addition to the Whittier School, in- cluding a_combination gymnasium and assembly hall and including the neces- sary remodeling of the present build- g. For the purchase of additional land adjoining the Bancroft School to pro- vide for the construction of an addition to_that school. Junior high schools: For the construction of a third story of eight rooms at the Powell Junior High School, together with a gymna- sium, including the necessary remodel- ing of the present structure. For the construction of a second wing | at the Macfarland Junior High School, including the necessary remodeling or the present building. For the construction of one wing at .$415 the Paul Junior High School in ac- cordance with the original plans of the typical junior high school, including the necessary remodeling of the present building. Division V. Elementary schools: For the erection of an eight-room ad- dition to the Woodridge School, includ- ing a combination gymnasium and as- sembly hall and including the necessary remodeling of the present building. 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