Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . ago the State Legislature passed the lawrequiring proper lighting in all new school buildings. Thiswise provision has resulted in a modern lighting system inapproximately three-fourths of the school buildings in thestate. There are, however, 803 schoolhouses that still havewindow lights on opposite sides of the classroom, an ideaborrowed from the church hundreds of years ago. Crosslighting appears to be most common in the older settled sec-tions, of the state because the majority of their buildingswere erected befo


Biennial report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, state of Montana . ago the State Legislature passed the lawrequiring proper lighting in all new school buildings. Thiswise provision has resulted in a modern lighting system inapproximately three-fourths of the school buildings in thestate. There are, however, 803 schoolhouses that still havewindow lights on opposite sides of the classroom, an ideaborrowed from the church hundreds of years ago. Crosslighting appears to be most common in the older settled sec-tions, of the state because the majority of their buildingswere erected before lighting requirements were made. Forexample, 75 r[ of the schools in Sanders county, 71 r< in SilverBow, 70, in Missoula, 54r, in Deer Lodge, 53^ in Madison,51^ in Gallatin and 50*7 in Broadwater have cross nearly all counties, however, a gradual reduction in thenumber of schoolhouses with cross lighting has been brotabout by the remodeling of buildings. In Fallon countythere is but one and in each of Treasure, Sheridan and Min- so SIXTEENTH BIENNIAL REPORT. Old Rosedale School Building, Park County


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