UPDATE | Youngstown City Schools Academic Distress Commission will not be meeting any time soon

YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown City Schools Academic Distress Commission will not be meeting any time soon.

A three-judge panel of the 7th District Court of Appeals has declined to grant the state's request for a stay related to a dispute between the city school board president and the teachers' union.

The state had asked the appeals panel to stay a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge's order barring the city schools Academic Distress Commission from meeting.

Judge Lou A. D'Apolito had barred the commission from meeting until Brenda Kimble, school board president, appoints a teacher to the commission.

Although it declined to grant the stay requested by the state, the appeals court has put the case on an expedited schedule with oral arguments set for 10 a.m. April 7.

The panel consists of Judges Cheryl Waite, Mary DeGenaro and Carol Ann Robb.