TABLE 3.-Projections of additional elementary school classrooms needed if only the 1964 "A" budget requests are approved

Area 3: Adams, Bancroft, Bruce, H. D. Cooke, Harrison, Monroe, and Morgan. Area 4: Brookland, Bunker Hill, Burroughs, Langdon, Noyes, Slowe, and Woodridge.oogon

Area 5: Bryan, Buchanan, Payne, and Watkins.

Area 6: Blow, Crummell, Miner, Pierce, Webb, Wheatley, and Young.

Area 7: Blair, Edmonds, Goding, Hayes, Kingsman, Logan, Lovejoy, Ludlow,
Madison, Maury, Peabody, Taylor, and Wilson.

Area 8: Alton, Benning, Burrville, Carver, Davis, Drew, Houston, Kenilworth,
Kimball, Merritt, Nalle, Plummer, Richardson, Shadd, Smothers, and Thomas.
Area 9: Birney, Garfield, Ketcham, Moten, Nichols Avenue, Stanton, and Turner.
Area 10: Beers, Orr, and Randle Highlands.

Area 12: Bundy, Cleveland, J. F. Cook, Garrison, Grimke, Langston, Montgomery, Morse, Perry, Seaton, Simmons, Slater, Thomson, and Walker-Jones. Area 13: Eckington, Emery, Gage, Lewis, and Mott.

Area 14: Congress Heights, Draper, Hendley, Patterson, and Simon.

120

100

Area 19: Janney, Lafayette, and Murch.

Area 20: Brent, Giddings, Lenox, Tyler, and Van Ness.

Area 21: Shepherd, Takoma, and Whittier.

Area 22: Amidon, Bowen, and Syphax.

Area 23: Military Road, Sharpe Health, and Visiting Instruction.

Pupil capacities are calculated according to formulas approved by the Superintendent's Office in September 1957.

3 The actual and projected pupil memberships represent the last day of the 1st 6 weeks
of school in each year.

Total classroom needs calculated on the basis of 1 room for every 30 pupils in grades
1 to 6 (ignoring any remainder of fewer than 30 pupils); 1 room for every 70 pupils or major
fraction thereof in kindergarten; and 1 room for every 18 pupils or major fraction thereof
in special education. Surplus classrooms in any year were considered available for use
as needed regardless of whether they were designed for kindergarten, grades 1 to 6, or
special education.

The Military Road School, Sharpe Health School, and Visiting Instruction, although
not constituting a school cluster area in the usual sense, are included here in order to
account for all of the projected membership in the city's elementary schools for the years
shown.

(Prepared by Department of General Research, Budget, and Legislation in coopera-
tion with the Department of Buildings and Grounds May 1963.)

1 Includes capacity of additional buildings for which construction funds have been
requested within available revenues.

2 Both actual and projected memberships represent the last day of the first 6 weeks of
school in the year specified. The projections are based primarily on the actual 1962-63
memberships and appropriate survival rates from grade to grade in the junior high school
groups and their "feeder" elementary school clusters. Adjustments have been made to
take account of available information concerning residential building, redevelopment,
etc. School and group totals have been rounded to multiples of 10, and the grand totals
have been rounded to multiples of 100.

3 The memberships for Langley and Terrell Junior High Schools have been distributed between groups 3 and 4. Those pupils residing south and east of the Pennsylvania mainline railroad tracks have been included in group 4, while those north and west of

the tracks have been included in group 3. However, the entire capacities of Langley
and Terrell remain in group 3.

A capacity of 991 is shown for the Randall Junior High School, instead of the 1,291
reported by the Statistician's Office, because 12 classrooms with a former capacity of 309
pupils are now used by the Boys' School and are no longer available for regular junior
high school use.

The Boys' School, Sharpe Health School, and Visiting Instruction Corps, although
not constituting a group of schools in the usual sense, are included here in order to account
for all of the city's actual and projected membership at the junior high school level in the
years shown.

(Prepared by Department of General Research, Budget, and Legislation, May 1953.)

Mr. HANSEN. Vocational education needs: In order to meet thetraining requirements for the world of work, our vocational schools face an initial need for improved facilities and additional personnel.

The Board of Education and the Superintendent over the years have made recommendations for meeting many of the needs now facing the vocational schools. In 1956, a recommendation was made to replace the five existing vocational schools with a single school. Failing to secure such a school, in 1959 an alternate program of improvement and limited consolidation was recommended which provided:

(1) An addition and improvement of the Phelps Vocational High School:

(2) Consolidation of the M. M. Washington and Burdick Vocational High Schools; and,

(3) Consolidation of the Bell and Chamberlain Vocational High Schools. To date, none of these recommendations have materialized.

The following shop facilities are now facing obsolescence. Lithography (Chamberlain), automobile shop and diesel shop (Bell), food laboratory (Burdick and Washington), and dry cleaning (Washington). Cosmetology at the M. M. Washington Vocational High School needs to be completed. New facilities should be provided for training medical and dental assistants, computer programers, and so forth.

Teachers college replacement. Because of inadequate facilities the District of Columbia Teachers College lost accreditation by the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education. While the replacement of facilities is not in the 1964 budget requests, the problem results from the lack of imagination and foresight in school construction, planning, and financing all so typical of this city. Systems of school finance for this city can never be considered complete until provision is made for the improvement of the college plant.

Mr. WHITENER. Doctor, will you amplify on that last sentence, "Systems of school finance for this city can never be considered complete until provision is made for the improvement of the college plant"?

Mr. HANSEN. Yes. This is on the assumption, and this is a very strong conviction that I have, sir, that one of the great needs in the Washington area is for a continuation of education at higher levels, that is, beyond the high school level, on a public basis.

We are the only jurisdiction, actually, that does not have a 4-yearcollege, university, supported from State funds or local funds.

Representative WHITENER. You mean to train teachers?

Mr. HANSEN. We have one to train teachers but this is the limit of our authority.

I am really talking about the extension of this college to the point where it becomes a 4-year municipal college.

But at this moment, since we have no authority to pursue that particular objective, my point is that we must have a replacement of the buildings for the present teachers college in order to keep it effective, to restore its accreditation, and to maintain it as a kind of example or base for an expansion into a 4-year municipal college.

Representative WHITENER. What you are saying then is that you think that this college should be financed and operated in such a way as to be a first-class teachers college, at least?

Mr. HANSEN. That is right.