Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 251, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1915 — Newspapers Blamed by Ella Flagg Young in Resigning Position. [ARTICLE]

Newspapers Blamed by Ella Flagg Young in Resigning Position.

Chicago, Oct. 21.—Ella Flagg Young, for six years superintendent of schools, today announced that she would resign on December 8, when the regular school election will be held. In announcing that she would not seek reappointment, the superintendent blamed “persistent discussion of the superdntendency of schools in the daily newspapers” for her determination to quit. She declared she would have resigned last June but for the fact that there was a large deficit in the school fund, a condition which, she said, does not exist now. Mrs. Young, who is 70 years old, been active in school affairs since 1862, when, at the age of 16, she began teaching. She conducted an educational tour through France, Germany, Switzerland and England in 1904, and on July 30, 1909, was made superintendent.