Mohip meets with students, parents

YOUNGSTOWN — Anita Jones is mostly satisfied with the education her two granddaughters are getting in the city schools.

She marked “strongly agree” on several of the survey questions distributed today at Discovery at Kirkmere school on the city's West Side. Questions asked about buildings, school climate, teachers and student conduct.

Today was the first of several meetings Krish Mohip, school district chief executive officer, has scheduled with students and parents before the school year starts Aug. 22.

“I’m here to help these children,” Mohip told attendees.

About 30 people – teachers, students and parents – attended the meeting at Kirkmere.

Mohip is in the community-input phase of developing what will be his strategic plan for digging the district out of the academic basement. That plan must be presented to the academic distress commission, the panel that hired Mohip, by Sept. 6.

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