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May 11 set for public meeting on schools CEO
By Denise Dick
YOUNGSTOWN
The Youngstown City School District Academic Distress Commission set 5 p.m. May 11 for a public meeting to gather input on a school district chief executive officer.
Turning Technologies will provide response devices for the session at Choffin Career and Technical Center.
John Wilson of the company said there would be no charge for the session.
“We appreciate that and the community does, too,” said Brian Benyo, commission chairman.
He said the commission wants to gather input from district teachers and administrators and community leaders about the qualities and characteristics they want to see in a CEO.
The plan is for the response devices, sometimes called clickers, to provide input from meeting attendees.
Wilson said the devices can be used to gather information from various demographics. For example, it could show how teachers respond to a particular question versus how administrators or parents do.
The commission also plans to have the meeting webcast with people able to tune in on a computer or mobile device and ask questions or comment from another location.
The five-member commission is charged with hiring a state-paid CEO to manage and run the school district by early June.
An advertisement for the job began running last week through the Association of Educational Service Agencies, Ohio Association of Secondary School Administrators. Buckeye Association of School Administrators, Ohio School Boards Association, Ohio Means Jobs, Career Building, Monster.com and Indeed.com.
The commission is using the Mahoning County Educational Service Center to conduct the search and May 11 is the application deadline.
Qualifications in the job brochure list at lease five years senior/executive level administrative experience managing people at a “scale that would present complexity and challenges seen in an urban school district such as Youngstown City Schools.” The salary range is $160,000 to $180,000 annually.
The CEO will have broad authority in managing the district, including hiring and firing personnel, reopening contracts and shuttering failing schools or turning them over to charter or other outside operators.