Parents, commitment key to improving Youngstown schools, expert says

YOUNGSTOWN

Key ingredients to improve Youngstown city schools are engaged parents and a commitment to long-term involvement, a longtime community organizer contends.

“If we begin to create a movement between parents, between educators, between churches and between administrators, we can begin to challenge the status quo,” said Greg Galluzzo, founder and senior organizer of the Chicago-based Gamaliel Foundation.

The foundation is a grass-roots network of nonpartisan, faith-based organizations that tries to empower ordinary people to effectively take part in political, environmental, economic and social decisions that affect their lives, its website says.

Galluzzo was the main speaker during Tuesday’s two-hour Save Our Schools meeting at the Elizabeth Missionary Baptist Church’s social hall, 7 Garland Ave., on the city’s East Side.

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