Community input sought to help academic success for Youngstown schools

YOUNGSTOWN — Conversations with smaller groups are ongoing to gather opinions about the community’s aspirations for the city schools.

A town-hall meeting will be scheduled for late next month.

Part of the academic-recovery plan for the city schools adopted by the academic distress commission and approved by Stan Heffner, state superintendent of public instruction, calls for a community-engagement process “focused on increasing community expectations and aspirations by all students.”

The Raymond John Wean Foundation is paying for that process, which is being done by the Harwood Institute for Public Innovation, based in Bethesda, Md.

“I’ve been encouraged by the reports so far,” said Jeff Glebocki, president of the Wean Foundation.

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