Youngstown BOE president appealing court's ruling on appointee
YOUNGSTOWN
Brenda Kimble, city school board president, maintains she picked the right person to serve on the schools’ academic distress commission and has filed an appeal of a judge’s decision that ordered her to appoint an active classroom teacher.
“It’s disappointing to me,” Kimble said. “Frankly, I took a long time and really thought over who should be in that seat. I went to the law. I just wish that instead of the magistrate and the judge forming their own opinion of what a teacher is, they went with the law.”
A motion filed Thursday asks Judge Lou A. D’Apolito of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court to issue a stay of his order directing Kimble to appoint a teacher to the commission by today, during the appeal to the 7th District Court of Appeals.
On Wednesday, Judge D’Apolito affirmed an earlier decision by Dan Dascenzo, a magistrate, that said Kimble’s appointment to the commission should be an active classroom teacher.
Paula Valentini, a spokeswoman for the Youngstown Education Association, the teachers union, isn’t surprised that Kimble is appealing.
“Teachers continue to hope that our board will demonstrate respect for their teachers by agreeing that teachers would have the most beneficial input to add to an academic commission,” she said.
Kimble refers to a section of Ohio law that defines a teacher as anyone licensed by the state and employed by the district as a superintendent, principal, instructor or other posts.
Read more about the matter in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.