New Youngstown CEO: We need to support the teachers

YOUNGSTOWN

Youngstown City Schools’ first chief executive officer plans to focus on instruction and providing educators with the resources they need to accomplish that.

“Gov. [John] Kasich is not going to save the schools; H.B. 70 is not going to save the schools; a CEO is not going to save the schools,” Krish Mohip said.

The teachers are the people who are in the classrooms with the students, working each day, he said.

“My mom was a teacher; I was a teacher. I have nothing but the highest regard for teachers and the ability of a teacher to transform a child’s life,” Mohip said. “What we need to do is to support teachers.”

He referred to professional development as a way for teachers to learn to hone instruction.

The new CEO, a Chicago Public Schools administrator, was interviewed Friday morning on Vindy Talk Radio.

His work in Youngstown begins June 29. He’ll earn $160,000 the first year of his three-year contract.

The state will pay Mohip’s salary and benefits.

The Youngstown Plan, legislation passed last summer by the state Legislature, gives Mohip 120 days from his appointment to create an improvement plan with input from community stakeholders.

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