Ella Flagg Young

Ella Flagg Young, born in Buffalo, New York, was an American educator of Scottish descent who was the first female head of a large United States city school system. At the time, the school district had 290,000 enrolled students and owned property worth $50,000,000. It was said that no woman had ever held such an important public office in the United States before. She also served as superintendent of Chicago Public Schools. She gave teachers in her district a role …