Tuesday, August 25, 2015
YOUNGSTOWN — The din of opposition to the Youngstown Plan is growing louder.
Several speakers at a meeting today thanked the city school board for filing a lawsuit last week to stop the plan, which calls for a chief executive officer to operate and manage the school district.
About 50 people attended the meeting while the twice-monthly meetings typically draw no more than a handful of attendees.
“The Youngstown Plan has to be challenged,” said the Rev. Kenneth Simon, pastor of New Bethel Baptist Church.
He said the way the plan was done was illegal and underhanded “and the plan itself is not really a plan.”
The school system needs to be fixed, the Rev. Mr. Simon acknowledged, but he says the Youngstown Plan isn’t the way to do it.
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