Thursday, June 26, 2014
YOUNGSTOWN
The retired Euclid Schools superintendent is the next chairman of the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission.
Joffrey Jones, who retired from Euclid in 2012 after 10 years on the job, was sworn in Thursday and officially takes over as the volunteer chairman today. Adrienne O’Neill, chairwoman since 2012, stepped down due to health reasons. Jones is the third chairperson since the ADC’s 2010 creation.
“I like to be collaborative unless being collaborative is not working and then I have to make decisions,” Jones said of his leadership style.
He said he expects the people who work both for and with him to do their jobs.
Demographically, Euclid and Youngstown schools share some similarities.
The Euclid School District, based on 2012 data, is about 82 percent black students with the remainder from other races, primarily Caucasian. About 80 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunches. Youngstown schools are about 70 percent black and about 90 percent of students qualify for free and reduced lunches.
Also Thursday, the commission appointed Beth Ann Hargreaves to the newly-created high school academic monitor for student success and quality control position.
Read more about the meeting in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.