Montana labor news., 1932-07-14
ELIZABETH IRELAND SEEKS REELECTION FOR
OFFICE OF SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT

Miss Elizabeth Ireland, state superintendent of public instruction, has
filed for the republican nomination to succeed herself. She says that she
will make her campaign upon the fulfIlment of the promise she made four
years ago, "a good school for every pupil and a good business adminisua
ton for the state office and every school district"
EDUCATION-Montana has always held high standards for qualifca-
tnns for her teachers. AT present rs per cent of the teachers of the rural
schools and all of the teachers of the city schools are normal or college
graduates. Practically all of the high school teachers are college grad
yates. To supervise the work of the teachers of the state the very
minimum qualification for the superintendent of public instruction should be
at the very least the equal or the equivalent of that which is required of its
high school teachers, which is a standard degree from a fully accredited
college o university.
Miss Ireand says that she has had five years of academic and professional
training beyond graduation from the advanced Latin course of a Minnesota
normal; that she holds a bachelors degree from the University of Montana;
a masters degree from Columbia university, New York Ciyi and additional
credits toward a doctors degree.
ExPERIENCE-Mhss Ireland says that she has had experience in prac-
teany every type of school position, not only actual teaching in the grades
and in high school but also supervision and administration from the bottom
to the top in a school system. She says that she has taught in rural village
and city school systems, in teachers institutes, and n a regional normal
She has been the principal of a junior high school; county superintendent
of Hill county Montana, for six years city superintendent of Havre city
schools for three and one-half years. member of a survey staff of Columbia
university to study eastern and southern school systems; and state super
intendent of public instruction for the past three and onehaf years.
A GOOD BUSINESS ADMINIsTRATIoN-h order to fulfill the prom
Use of a good business administration for the state office and every school
district the expenditures OF the state office have been and are beng
reduced, and she has co-operated with the Legislature to put into effect
the new high school law and the school budget law, which we're designed
puposeiy to put the school system OF the state on a sound basis Of fnane-
ing and accounting. The school budget law is the first attempt that has
ever been made by all the school districts of the state As a whole to es-
aolsh a uniform system OF schoo accounting m al absolute check upon
the costs % that there will be n o way by which the expenditures of a
district can exceed the anticipated revenues for the ensuing school year
POLICY OF THE oFFICE-f nominated and reelected to the office of
state superintendent of public instruction, Miss Ireland says that she will
continue to work toward carrying out the plans that she initiated during the
first three and one-haf years of her administration, which ar a follows:
l. To cooperate with the parents, school authorities and taxpayers to
provide good schools FOR all Montana children.
2 With the cooperation of the parents, to provide for every rural child
a standard rural school, taught by a teacher who is a normal graduate or
the equivalent
8 With the cooperation of the parents, to make high school education
accessible to all rural eighth grade graduates.
A. To eliminate from the school program those things that are merely
attractive II desirable and retain those that are vital and essential
5 To urge the employment Of Montana teachers where the training is
equal or equivalent to that of teachers from outside the state.
G. To carry into successful operation the new elementary and high
school courses of study and the new high school code.
Z To work out the school budget law to mOr successful operation Sc
that all school districts will keep within their yearly incomes, so that the
school finances will be n a sound financial basis as a protection to the edu-
cation OF the children, the teachers and perintendent who are EMPLOYED
the taxpayers, and those investing in school securities.
8 To conduct the business of the state office 81 that the expenditures