Struthers hears schools superintendent candidate

September 24, 2012 at 8:27p.m.

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One of two candidates for Struthers schools superintendent went before a panel of community and school district stakeholders Monday.

Timothy S. Kelty, who is now an Austintown Fitch High School assistant principal, presented his case to eight people who represented the community’s and school district’s interests.

After his presentation, the stakeholders questioned him and gave feedback to Ron Iarussi, superintendent of the Mahoning County Educational Services Center, who will pass it on to the school board.

The same process will be repeated at 5 p.m. Thursday with the other candidate. He is Joseph Nohra, principal of the Mosaic School of Fine and Performing Arts in the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District.

The school board will announce its decision at its October meeting.

The chosen candidate will succeed Robert Rostan, who is retiring at the end of this year.

Rostan was superintendent at Struthers for four years. Kelty, 45, lives in Canfield with his wife, Diane, and their three children.

In the Austintown Local School District, he was also Woodside Elementary School principal from 2010 to this year. He was an Austintown Fitch assistant principal from 2006 to 2010.

He said he was asked to take over at Woodside when its principal left. While he was there, he said, reading and math scores rose. Woodside was named a School of Promise for this school year, he said.

Kelty characterized himself as a strong and experienced school leader.