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Distress panel to interview 6 CEO applicants for Youngstown schools
By Denise Dick
YOUNGSTOWN
The city schools academic distress commission will interview six people for the district chief executive officer job and extend the deadline to allow to more candidates to apply.
The five-member commission met Wednesday, and after a three-hour executive session, voted to ask the Mahoning County Educational Service Center to arrange interviews Wednesday and next Thursday with the six prospects.
The commission charged with selecting the first city school district CEO also unanimously voted to extend the application deadline until the position is filled or the panel opts to close it.
Commission Chairman Brian Benyo said a second round of interviews to further narrow the list is expected. The target to select the CEO remains June 6.
Commission member Laura Meeks said the list of nearly 30 candidates who have applied is an impressive pool.
“We’ve got six good candidates,” Benyo added.
The list of those to be interviewed includes Stephen Stohla of Alliance, interim city schools superintendent since last July.
The other candidates:
Andrew Tommelleo of New Castle, Pa., consultant for state support team since 2014.
Tyrone Olverson of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, superintendent of Finneytown Local Schools since 2013.
Krish Mohip of Chicago, administrator, Chicago Public Schools.
Trent Mosely of Cleveland, academic superintendent, Cleveland Metropolitan School District.
Rhonda Corr of Lakewood, Ohio, academic instructional office, Indianapolis, since August; area superintendent at Chicago Public Schools, 2013-15.
Both Mohip and Corr were finalists last month for the Salt Lake City superintendent.
Corr formerly worked with Barbara Byrd-Bennett in Cleveland and Chicago schools. Byrd-Bennett pleaded guilty and was convicted of bribery connected to her position in Chicago.
Corr wasn’t charged.
Olverson has announced that he would leave his Finneytown superintendent position, near Cincinnati, at the end of July. A February article on Cincinnati.com said Olverson was leaving to be with his family.
He had been a candidate earlier this year for superintendent of Fairborn City Schools near Dayton.