Show schools are crowded CORTEZ when navajo children are enrolled cradled in cortex cortez schools in september 1955 2955 they will go to all grade schools la in town on a non segregated basic basis according to superintendent vinell lester the federal government has hais provided funds for the erection of a school to accommodate the children and therefore they win WUI not be an additional burden oo 00 educational faculties facilities in cortex cotter but there are an other space worries according to mr lester leiter overcrowding Is prevalent with as many as 38 students assigned to classrooms suited to but 20 pupils ils the cortex cortez high school a also ai is crowded and every avaU available able space la Is being used even the school cafeteria hag has been pressed into service as a classroom designed to relieve the congestion la is the new manaugh grade school expected to be ready to receive students in september but mr lester expects that the additional number of children to be educated will more than offset the space gained the events of last year 1953 have substantiated the survey in which we asked for for new school buildings and faculties mr lester said he referred to the request in 1953 for funds with which to build the man augh school when was authorized teacher personnel turnover Is not a major problem however according to mr lester there are 71 teachers in the system at present and the turnover Is less pan than ten per cent the operating budget for the county high school at cortez and for the district I 1 grade schools is |