Youngstown superintendent looking for space to offer all-day pre-school

YOUNGSTOWN

The city schools interim superintendent hopes to offer all-day preschool next year, but adequate space could be a hurdle.

Stephen Stohla, interim superintendent since last summer, has asked the district leadership team to make a recommendation. The team includes department heads and school principals.

“It will be up to the board to decide what to do,” Stohla said.

He expects information to be presented to the school board at its Feb. 23 meeting.

One possibility is moving sixth-graders out of the elementary school buildings.

“Maybe we’d put the sixth-graders with seventh- and-eighth-graders,” Stohla said. “Maybe there would be a fifth-and-sixth-grade building and a seventh-and-eighth-grade building.”

The district leadership team will devise a plan, he said.

“I want to use the smartest people to do this,” Stohla said. “Maybe with the current structure, it won’t work. I don’t know.”

Read more about the plan in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.