Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1929, Page 36

TrPosESONS SO0 PROGRAN Board of Education Fears Return to “Disorderly, Chaotic” Condition. Opposition to Representative Sim- mons’ proposed $10,000.000 public school building program, on the ground that its enactment will bring about a return to “the disorderly, chaotic procedure” which attended schoolhouse construe- ticn here prior to the passage of the first five-year building program because of the proposed measure’s absence of any definite program of construction | and because the bill repeals legislative authorization still considered valid and desirable, was unanimously expressed by the Board of Education at its meet- ing in the Pranklin Adminisiration Building yesterday afternoon. At the same mecting the board ap- pwoved the midyear school system per- sonnel changes, including appointments, sfers, promotions and retirements. regular business calendar which the board disposed of embraced also opposition to the employment of ma- trons in tvery school of the system in which girls are enrolled and the au- thorization of certain school building repairs and improvements at an aggre- gate cost of $10,305. The school board's action opposing | Representative Simmons’ building bill ‘was taken when it approved the recom- mendation made by its legislative com-. mittee in a report presented by Henry L. Gilligan, chairman of the legislative committee. Opposes Three Features. In his report, which the Board of Education subsequently adopted as an expression of its own stand on the bill, Mr. Gilligan outlined three essential ongtess of the Ce legislation on Stmmons’ bill, the report continued: “Representative Simmons’ bill author- izes apgrwmuom for purchase of land and schoolhouse construction in an ag- gregate not to exceed $10,000,000. In view of the fact that there are more than $7,000,000 worth of authorizations in the first five-year school building program act not yet appropriated for, obviously Representative Simmons’ bill makes provision for less than $3,000,000 worth of additional authorizations. At- tention is invited to the fact that up to date no justification has been pre- sented to the public for this amount of $10,000,000. o Need Nearly $13,000,000. “The cost of the authorizations un- appropriated for of more than $7,000,000 and the cost of the carefully prepared additional facilities needed in the next five years of $5.750,000 make a total of nearly $13.000,000, which, in the opinion of the board, is necessary for a five- year period.” Going on to the third “essential fea- | ture” of the Simmons bill—the results | of its operation—the report declares: “The Board of Education is seriously concerned with the possible effect of the passage of Representative Simmons’ bill in its present form. Because the bill repeals legislative authorizations still considered valid and desirable; because | of the absence in it of any definite program of schoolhouse construction; because of the absence of any fact basis | in support of the legislation, the Board | of Education fears that the enactment of this bill into lJaw will make inevitable the abandonment of the orderly plan of | procedure in schoolhouse construction which has prevailed since 1925, and will substitute therefor a return to the dis- orderly, chaotic procedure which has | attended the program of schoolhouse construction throughout the history of the public schools until the enactment {of the first five-year school building | program act. which went into effect | July 1, 1925." The report concludes with a declara- tion favoring its own sccond five-year program rather than Mr. Simmons’ bill, ! act.” Commenting on the amount of Mr. CRcatne Hlie el system has profited greatly by the definite pro- gram of schoolhouse construction car- | Senate. ried in the first five-year building pro- | Senator PI because the Board of Edu- | textbooks mi ve-year school building program act helpful rather than detrimental in its handling of schoolhouse con-'have free OCO-GAS found the first A reports sets forth. Rej on the status of other |told the board that efforts were under | that the cost of maintaining matrons cific in its authorizations. The board | school It tive measures now pend-'| way in the Senate now to have the text- | at every school in the system would | raising funds to be used in the school, | school day. has found no embarrassment because | ing, Mr. Gilligan took alleged inelasticity of the present |-cize pa: the unanimous t properly be furnished | of Education the District Teachers' | fore failed to recommend the employ- | schools with admission charges in ef- in the junior high schools, which in- | Union requested that matrons be em- | ment of the additional matrons. The | fect. Dr. Charles F. Carusi, president W clude the seventh and eighth grades of | ployed at every school where girls were | board was unanimous in adopting the | of the board, vehemently opposed the | fleld and the preparation of the tenn to the board | elementary school work, which already | enrolled as students. The proposal was | superintendent’s report. M he was convinced the ' turned over to Dr. Frank W. Ballou, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1929. board has found those pro- | struction, ":Ex board has approved a|| Senator had “no real reason to take his | superintendent, for study, and Dr. Bal- | extend-its permission to the Johnson | money great help in the prepara- | second bill ilar to the first act,” the estimates and has had no embarrassment because the act is spe- from their parents “for evel i| stand against free textbooks in the | lou's findings were returned to the | School Parent-Teacher Association to | little thing that comes along.” He sa senior high schools, t00.” Mr. Gilligan | board yesterday. Dr. Ballou reported | present Paul Hubbard in a sleight-of- | he was opposed to solicitation of a1 nd performance for the purpose of | sort among school children during tl to criti- { book bill taken off the unanimous con- | exceed $100,000, and that since women | the board refused to’authorize such a the expenditures authoriz occasion Among Senator Phipps for his opposition [sent calendar and listed so that it| teachers are employed almost exclu-|procedure. The board referred the mat- | py"ha “hoard yesterday for improw to the free textbook bill, which, having | might come to a vote in spite of Sena- | sively in the lower grades whefe an|ter to Dr. Ballou, upon whom it con-| mantsto buildings, grounds and equi] ssed the House, now is waiting on | tor Phipps' opposition. » consent, calendar of the Mr. Gilligan said that while ndux'ill -’mr‘n,tlm ;l!‘lh'. tt: muh:‘dxne- ferred power to act. .%c thersa}r]m: l:oimed quently in stering tle girls in | however, certain members of the boar event of illgm, '{;ed tremendous ex- | expressed their views upon the pro- mfx?h’f‘ws'é?.%'fi Oflgfor‘:"“ l‘tfex?d‘:dmll pense seemed uncalled for. He there- | cedure of staging performances in Meunieivad Archist mm"u' e 44 grading and fencing of the athlet ment were: Ballou Opposes Matrons. that free| At a previous meeting of the Board = idea on the ground that school chil- ‘When the board was called upon to'dren should not be required to seek r FRANKLIN beat fastest train time e s’ 1 whis he | + . A Bimminer b‘.‘nwuc‘?m.; because, as the report states, *the board “first, the repeal of the provisions of the | believes that a plan Is better than no first five-year school building progrem | PIAn: that exactness in details of a pro- act; second, the smount of the author- | ETam is preferable to the absence of Sct. econd. the amount of the aulor- | such detalls and that the authorizations poand, ) ; of the first five-year school building change of policy.” Commenting on the repeal of the first five-year program’s provisions, the re- port set forth that “the Board of Edu- cation knows no reason why said au- thorization for the purchase of land and the construction of buildings should ‘be repealed. With a comparatively small number of exceptions, the Board ©f Education is of the opinion that program act yet unappropriated for | should not be repealed.” Back Five-Year Program. 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