Youngstown school board votes 4-3 to support appeal of judge's order

YOUNGSTOWN

The Youngstown Board of Education voted 4-3 late this afternoon to support an appeal of a Mahoning County Common Pleas Court judge’s decision that ordered board president Brenda Kimble to appoint an active classroom teacher to the academic distress commission.

Kimble’s appeal of Judge Lou A. D’Apolito’s order is before the 7th District Court of Appeals.

Judge D’Apolito barred Kimble from appointing Carol Staten, a school principal, to the commission.

The academic distress commission was created by the Youngstown Plan, a state law enacted last summer.

The five-member commission consists of three members appointed by the state superintendent of public instruction, one by the mayor, and one, a teacher, appointed by the city school board president.

The new commission will appoint a state-paid chief executive officer to run the city schools.

Voting yes were Jerome Williams, Michael Murphy, Kimble and Ronald Shadd. The no votes were Jackie Adair, Dario Hunter and Corrine Sanderson.