CEO finalists ready for challenge

YOUNGSTOWN — Each of the two finalists for the Youngstown schools chief executive officer job has experience in urban schools, says he knows how to collaborate and looks forward to the challenges of the job.

The academic distress commission meets Tuesday and is expected to select either Krish Mohip, a Chicago Public Schools administrator, or Tyrone Olverson, superintendent of Finneytown Schools near Cincinnati, for the job,

Mohip is a principal at one of Illinois’s lowest-performing schools. Before that, he was chief officer of strategic school support services in the Chicago schools. He was responsible for the whole-school reform of 36 of that city’s lowest-performing and most-challenged schools.

Of those, 24 schools saw significant improvement a year earlier than expected.

“I didn’t do anything fancy, we just focused on instruction,” Mohip said, adding teachers need support.

“You have to invest in your people,” he said. “You have to give them the support, the training and the resources they need.”

Olverson has worked in urban, suburban and rural schools, As superintendent of Finneytown, where he was responsible for planning and implementing an effective, standards-based instructional program.

His family lives in Reynoldsburg, near Columbus, and he has resigned his Finneytown position, effective July 1.

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