Youngstown schools CEO unveils academic recovery plan

YOUNGSTOWN — Krish Mohip, Youngstown city schools chief executive officer, has delivered an ambitious, student-centered and results-oriented academic improvement plan to the district’s Academic Distress Commission, featuring specific goals and achievement timetables.

“We’re shifting to have an intensive focus on teaching and learning and giving our teachers and administrators the support they need to be successful,” Mohip said, summarizing his plan.

The commission will meet at 5 p.m. Sept. 20 at district headquarters to consider the plan to rescue the school district from the state of academic emergency it has been mired in since 2010.

Created by Ohio House Bill 70, known as the Youngstown Plan, the five-member commission appointed Mohip as the district’s CEO.

Mohip, a former teacher, principal and administrator in the Chicago public schools, started work here June 29.

Mohip’s plan is subject to commission approval, and the board of education will have an advisory role, Mohip said.

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