Does Brenda Kimble have an office in the school administration building?

YOUNGSTOWN — Her re-election campaign literature is inside it.

A fellow board member says she ordered him out of it.

And people at the city schools administration building refer to it as such, but Brenda Kimble, school board president, insists the space across from the superintendent’s suite is not her office.

Kimble said the office is used for a committee she’s reviving called Public Education Works. The idea is to get people from the community involved in the schools to adopt families and mentor them, she said.

“It’s something that’s good for the community,” Kimble said.

It’s similar to the business advisory committee started by former Superintendent Connie Hathorn, she said.

Last month, Kimble told The Vindicator that the committee would set up internships for students.

“This is actually a superintendent’s committee,” Kimble said. “It’s not my committee. The superintendent is

allowed to set up any committee. I’m just gathering people because something needed to be done.”

A public-records request from the newspaper to the school district, however, found no resolution creating or otherwise pertaining to a Public Education Works committee. There’s no list of members or statement of the goals or funding for that committee.

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