Youngstown schools' new CEO gets off to busy start

YOUNGSTOWN

If people want to be part of the city school district and its improvement, they first have to believe that the students can succeed.

“It’s about getting everyone’s expectations to be raised – getting everyone to believe in our children,” said Krish Mohip, who began Wednesday as Youngstown City Schools’ first chief executive officer.

Youngstown children can be among the best in the country, he believes.

“We could be the model for what urban education should look like,” Mohip said.

It’s up to educators and professionals to fill those students’ young minds with the knowledge students need to be successful.

Mohip, 38, has a big job in front of him.

The school district has hovered for years among Ohio’s poorest-performing ones.

The Youngstown Plan approved last summer by the state Legislature called for a new academic distress commission to appoint the district’s first CEO. The commission last month selected Mohip from the roughly 30 people who applied. The law gives the CEO broad authority in operating the district.

“Every decision I make will be student-centered,” he said.

Read more about the new official in Thursday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.