NAACP Blasts Youngstown Schools

Robert K. Yosay | Posted January 26th 2015

The president of Youngstown’s NAACP branch says city schools Superintendent Connie Hathorn and the deputy superintendent lack the ability to improve district academics and should be replaced. “The superintendent is fostering an illusion of progress,” said George Freeman Jr., president of the Youngstown branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, at a news conference Monday. “The district has never been higher than a ‘D.’”