BREAKING NEWS | Youngstown school board president names appointee to ADC

YOUNGSTOWN — Brenda Kimble, city school board president, named Carol Staten, a teacher who sometimes serves as a principal in the district, to the city schools academic distress commission.

The five-member commission will appoint a chief executive officer to manage and operate the city schools.

Staten joins Barbara Brothers, a retired Youngstown State University dean, Mayor John A. McNally’s appointee; and Laura Meeks, retired president of Eastern Gateway Community College; Jennifer Roller, president of the Raymond John Wean Foundation; and Brian Benyo, president of Brilex Industries of Youngstown, who were appointed by Richard Ross, state superintendent of public instruction.

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