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Four to be interviewed for interim Youngstown schools superintendent
By Denise Dick
YOUNGSTOWN
The former superintendents of Warrensville Heights and Brookfield schools and educators from Michigan and Maryland will be interviewed for the city schools interim superintendent job.
A committee of city school board, Youngstown Schools Academic Distress Commission and community members narrowed to four the list of nine applicants for the job.
Committee members will interview the four Monday.
The applicants are Thomas Hill of Ann Arbor, Mich., Bridgeport-Spaulding Schools superintendent since 2014; Marva Kay Jones of Copley, Warrensville Heights superintendent from 2010 to 2014; Stephen Stohla of Alliance, military sales specialist and former superintendent in Brookfield, 2007 to 2009, and Alliance from 2004 to 2007; and Milton Walters of Silver Spring, Md., an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and Montreat College in North Carolina and managing business consultant.
The committee – Brenda Kimble and Michael Murphy from the school board, Joffrey Jones and Paul Williams from the commission and Celeste Bryant, Camille Pinkard and the Rev. Dr. William C. King of Price Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church – will recommend two or three of those interviewed to the school board.
The board will appoint the interim superintendent, but the commission has veto authority.
The interim superintendent is expected to serve for about six months. No plans have been announced for filling the job beyond that.
Connie Hathorn, who became superintendent in 2011, resigned to become the superintendent of Watson Chapel Schools in Pine Bluff, Ark. May 29 was his last day at work. His resignation is effective June 30.
Whoever is selected as interim superintendent is expected to assume that role July 1. Douglas Hiscox, who served as deputy superintendent for academic affairs with Hathorn, is superintendent pro tempore until then.