City school board president requests meeting with state officials

YOUNGSTOWN

If the state has something planned for Youngstown City Schools, Brenda Kimble, school board president, says the school board and district residents have a right to know.

At a Monday meeting of the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission, Kimble said she’d like to schedule a meeting among board and commission members, attorneys for both entities, state legislators and Richard Ross, state superintendent of public instruction.

“Our house has been cleaned and now we need to refurnish it,” she said, referring to the resignations of Superintendent Connie Hathorn and Karen Greene, assistant superintendent for human resources.

Kimble said she doesn’t know what if any plans the state might have.

“We just want to know if there are any plans for our district that we’re unaware of,” she said.

Several years ago, community groups in Cleveland got together because they weren’t happy with what was happening with the schools and made changes.

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