Excerpt from The Official Wirt Reports to the Board of Education of New York City: Comprising the Official Reports Upon Public School 89 Brooklyn and Public Schools 28, 2, 42, 6, 50, 44, 5, 53, 40, 32, 4 and 45 the Bronx and an Appendix Showing the More Extensive Reorganization Proposed

In publishing the official reports of Mr. Wirt to the'boatd of Education of New York City which are presented in the following pages, the Public Education Association is not con cerned, primarily, in setting forth the specific recommendations regarding the particular schools enumerated. It is interested, rather, in making available for public consideration, in connec tion with the more general reorganization of the public schools contemplated by the city authorities, Mr. Wirt's own statement of the fundamental ideas underlying the duplicate or multiple type of organization, known as the Gary plan. The reports printed in this pamphlet cover only the twelve schools in the Bronx and the one school in Brooklyn, which the Board of Education decided to reorganize over a year ago. As the funda mental ideas underlying this reorganization are the same as those which underly the proposed reorganization on a wider scale, the Public Education Association believes that the appear ance of these reports at this time will be of assistance to laymen and educators alike in comprehending what the city is planning to do in a thorough-going way for the children in all of the public schools.

After a protracted series of joint conferences the educational and city authorities recently decided to extend the duplicate type of organization to fifty schools, located in the several boroughs. The details Of this decision are contained in an official statement issued by the Board of Estimate and Apportion ment of the City of New York under date Of May 9, The reorganization of these fifty schools will affect over children, and will eliminate to a large extent the part-time and double - session evil in the city schools. The expenditures for this purpose comprise over three and a half millions of dollars for the reconstruction of existing buildings; over a million and a half for the entire replacement of old buildings, and nearly two millions for new buildings in new locations, making a total of nearly seven millions of dollars for the first step in the reorganization of all of the schools in New York City on the multiple-school, or work-study-play, basis.

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