SEVENTY-FIRST CONGRESS . SESS. II. Cu. 848 . 1930 .
969 The Board of Education is authorized to designate the months in teNature study, etc., which the ten salary payments now required by law shall be made to teachers assigned to the work of instruction in nature study and school gardens . For purchase of apparatus, fixtures, specimens, technical books, and etc ., Supplies for for extending the equi p ment and for the maintenance of laboratories of the departments of physics, chemistry, biology, and general sci- ence in the several high and junior high schools and normal schools, and for the installation of the same, $16,000, to be immediately available . The children of officers and men of the United States Army, Navy , etc ., ° admitted Navy, and Marine Corps, and children of other employees of the free . United States stationed outside the District of Columbia, shall be admitted to the public schools without payment of tuition .
Improv ing g rounds Not t o exceed $100 ,000 of the un expected bala nces of appro pria- of new buildin gs . tions for buil dings and gro unds, public schools, conta ined in the availexpeended balance District of Columbia Appropriation Act, fiscal year 1928, is here by Vol . 45, p. 1279. made available until June 30, 1931, fQr the improvement of grounds surrounding pu blic-school b uildings, con structed under appropria- tions for the fiscal year 1929 and prior fiscal years, such work to be performed by d ay labor or o therwise in t he discretion of the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia . F or rep airs a nd imp rovem ents t o scho ol bu ilding s, rep airing b Repairs, etc., to and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, installa- tion and repair of electric equipment, and installation of sanitary drinking fount ains, and mai ntenance of m otor trucks in cluding not to exceed $5,000 for purchase of one five-ton truck, $415,000 . For necessary remodeling, painting, and equipping the Wilson Norm Wilson al ands Miner Normal School and the Miner Normal School for use as teachers' Remodeling, etc . colleges, incl uding the rep air and refin ishing of exis ting equip- ment, $30,000 . For rent of school buildings and grounds, storage and stock rooms, Rent- $7,0 00 . For purchase, installation, and maintenance of equipment, for Br School yards pla y- school yards for the purposes of play of pupils, $10,000 : Provided, Proviso. That such playgrounds shall be kept open for play purposes in Use, etc . accord ance w ith th e sch edule mainta ined f or pl aygrou nds un der the juri sdic tion of the play grou nd d epar tmen t . BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS
Buildings and grounds . For t he completion of the constr uction of the Alice Deal J unior H Alic e Dea l Juni o r High School in the Reno section, $300,000.
Vol.45,p.1279. For the completion of the construction of the Charles William iotJanl eessH William El . Eliot Junior High School in the vicinity of the Kingsman School, Vol.45,p.1280. $300 ,000 . For continuing the construction of a new school building for the Business High . Business High School, $600,000 . For the construction of a twelve-room addition and two gymnasi- Go ry oon Junior High. ums at the Gordon Junior High School in accordance with the original plans for the construction of said building, $255,000 .
Columbia Junior For the construction, by student labor or otherwise, of a shop for High . instruction in automobile repairing on the grounds of the Columbia sh oPtomobile study Junior High School, to be used by the classes of the Abbot Voca- tional School, $15,000 . For the construction of a third story of eight rooms at the Powell Powell Junior High . Junior High School, together with a gymnasium, including the nece ssar y re mode ling of the pres ent stru ctur e, $ 225, 000 . For the construction of a four-room addition to the Congress Congress Heights . Heights School, including a combination gymnasium and assembly
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