Stohla unveils restructuring of Youngstown schools
YOUNGSTOWN — Interim Superintendent Stephen Stohla distributed a draft to school board members tonight outlining the grade and building alignment for next year.
The district plans to offer all-day kindergarten next year, which means sixth-graders, now housed in the elementary buildings, will have to go some place else.
Under Stohla’s draft program, Harding, Paul C. Bunn, Williamson, Martin Luther King, William Holmes McGuffey and Taft Elementary schools would become preschool to fifth-grade schools.
Kirkmere, which houses a Discovery program that exposes third-through-eighth-graders to art, music, science and Spanish, would become a preschool to fifth-grade school too.
The Discovery program would be consolidated with Chaney’s Visual and Performing Arts and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programs.
Chaney would continue as a sixth-through-12th-grade building and East and Youngstown Early College high schools would remain ninth-through-12th-grade schools.
For the other changes, read Wednesday's Vindicator and Vindy.com