BREAKING NEWS | Youngstown city schools, unions plan to file suit to stop Youngstown plan

COLUMBUS — The Youngstown City School Board and city school teachers and classified unions plan to file a lawsuit against the Ohio Department of Education regarding the Youngstown Plan.

Michael Murphy, school board vice president, said the board approved a resolution at a special meeting Thursday to move forward with litigation.

The action is to be filed today.

The plan, approved in late June by both houses of the state Legislature and signed by Gov. John Kasich in early July, would dissolve the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission established in 2010. In its place, a new commission with three members appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction, one by the mayor and a teacher appointed by the city school board would be created.

That commission would appoint a chief executive officer to manage and operate the school district. The CEO would be paid by the state and have broad authority including the power to hire and fire administrators, reopen contracts and bring in outside operators to run failing schools.

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