Youngstown Improves School By Changing Students

Superintendent Connie Hathorn says, “I didn’t want to maintain status quo. Because it was based on seniority, and the number of years you have, if you’re going to be up for a position you can get it. I didn’t want someone there just because of the number of years, I wanted someone there based on their skills and their desire to be there.”

Hathorn says he had the power to bypass the union’s seniority rules because state law allows districts in academic emergency – which Youngstown was in at the time — to exert certain management rights. And while he knows the move was unpopular, Hathorn is unapologetic.

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