Youngstown schools CEO sets high standards for students, employees

YOUNGSTOWN — It will take a few weeks before Krish Mohip, city schools CEO, knows if he met his 98 percent attendance goal, but he’s setting his expectations high for both students and employees.

Mohip, who started in late June as the district’s chief executive officer, spent this morning, the first day of school for students, visiting the buildings.

By late morning, he had stopped at Wilson Programs of Promise, Discovery Transition to Careers at Volney, Martin Luther King Jr. and Williamson Elementary schools and East High School.

At MLK, Mohip checked on an office computer, scrolling through the schools and the number of students versus those who came to school the first day.

“I’m having them update the attendance hourly,” he said.

East seniors surprised him.

From what he had heard and read, he expected chaos.

“It’s a pretty organized place,” Mohip said. “The kids are ready to learn, and they’re students that teachers can teach.”

A wing of the high school is designated as the Freshmen Academy with an assistant principal assigned specifically to it.

“The kids need that nurturing,” Mohip said.

He told students gathered in the school auditorium that he wants to listen to them.

“I want this to be the best high school in Youngstown,” the CEO said.

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