Teachers and school board square off in court on aspect of Youngstown plan

YOUNGSTOWN — A decision on whether a substitute administrator and retired principal may serve on the city schools academic distress commission is expected in the coming weeks.

Attorneys representing the Youngstown Education Association, the city schools teachers union, today argued before Magistrate Daniel Dascenzo of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court that Brenda Kimble, school board president, should appoint an active classroom teacher employed by the district.

Kimble appointed Carol Staten, a retired principal who works as a substitute administrator, to the commission.

The five-member commission includes three members appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction; one by the mayor; and the fifth, a teacher, by the school board president.

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