School programs change buildings

July 13, 2015 at 7:34p.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

Stephen Stohla, interim Youngstown City Schools superintendent, says student safety is the main objective in the latest change in school building use.

The district’s two third-through-eighth-grade choice schools, Discovery at Kirkmere and Discovery at Volney, will be combined this school year at Kirkmere.

Initially the plan had been to move Discovery 3, a seventh and eighth-grade program with a career-tech emphasis, from East High School where it was this past school year, to the fourth-floor of Choffin Career and Technical Center.

Stohla those seventh and eighth-graders will instead be moved to Volney.

“This truly is safety-driven,” he said at a Monday school board meeting.

The alternative was reached by a committee that included building principals and district administrators, Stohla said,

“I want to get the most use out of the buildings that are underutilized,” he said.