Youngstown distress panel considering monitor for city high schools

YOUNGSTOWN

At its next meeting, the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission will consider appointing an academic monitor for the high schools similar to the one who operating in lower grades this past school year.

After an executive session at a special commission meeting Wednesday, Adrienne O’Neill, commission chairwoman, said the high- school academic monitor for student success and quality control would work in the high schools and report monthly to the commission.

Last October, the commission appointed Edward A. Bernetich as its supervisor for prekindergarten through eighth grade. Bernetich, a former Beachwood Middle School principal, visited all prekindergarten through eighth grade schools.

Clairie Huff-Franklin, director of academic distress commissions and education reform for the Ohio Department of Education, said students in those lower grades showed consistent growth throughout the district.

“We want to do that at the high-school level,” O’Neill said.

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