Commission to vote next week on Youngstown schools recovery plan

YOUNGSTOWN — The city schools Academic Distress Commission expects to vote next week on an updated recovery plan for the district that includes extensive community engagement, increased student choice and frameworks for principal and teacher training.

The commission’s next meeting is 2 p.m. next Thursday at P. Ross Berry Eighth and Ninth Grade Academy, 940 Bryn Mawr Ave., on the city’s East Side.

At a meeting today at Choffin Career and Technical Center, commission members reviewed a draft plan but took no action.

“[T]he Academic Recovery Plan sets the stage for the Youngstown City Schools to emerge as a transformed school system not only achieving a rating of continuous improvement for two consecutive years but also poised for every student to successfully compete in the 21st century,” the draft document says. “All barriers to student success will be removed, and the district will create a new goal that reflects the responsibility of all to reach high achievement.”

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