YEA bristles at state plan to take over Youngstown schools

YOUNGSTOWN — The union representing Youngstown teachers has voiced its dissatisfaction with the state plan to oversee the city’s schools.

The plan, approved late last week by the state Legislature, abolishes the Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission and establishes a new five-member panel in its place.

Within 60 days after the state superintendent designates a commission chairman or chairwoman from his appointees, the new panel will appoint a school district chief executive officer to run the district.

The Youngstown Education Association, in a statement released tonight, said it is disappointed the leaders that created HB 70 failed to include the input of the school district’s teachers.

The union represents more than 500 teachers.

“This continues a pattern of excluding teachers in the discussion concerning the education of the children of Youngstown,” the statement said.

“There is no group of individuals who have more education, experience and insight into the needs of the children of our district, yet we are continuously left out of the conversation,” the statement continues.

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