Youngstown Plan still drawing criticism

YOUNGSTOWN — While opponents are quick to point out what’s wrong with a plan to appoint a CEO to run the city schools, no alternative is being offered.

Two rallies and a community meeting about what’s been dubbed the Youngstown Plan drew hundreds of people who voiced their discontent with the legislation signed last week by Gov. John Kasich. But twice-monthly city school board and monthly academic distress commission meetings see scant attendance.

Brittany Douglas of Youngstown graduated from Chaney High School in 2009 and said things were bad when she was in school.

Other students’ behavior was so bad, it distracted her — and the other students who wanted to learn.

“When I watched the news all those years, every time there was a parent meeting on the news, there were like six people there,” Douglas said. “Six people from the whole entire district. Are you kidding me?”

But now many people are attending events to object to the latest plan.

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