Feb 13, 2021
CHAMPION The Trumbull Career and Technical Center is preparing students for high-demand careers after they graduate, including professions that are needed during a pandemic such as nursing, child care and auto repair.
As part of Career and Technical Education Month in February, the center has been showcasing many of the center’s programs.
Morgan Cretella, community engagement coordinator, said many jobs are in demand right now during the pandemic such as in child care for parents who have gone back to work while schools are not all open five days per week, and also health care fields.
She said also people have more time to have work done on their vehicles, so those in auto repair and maintenance are needed.
PRESENT: Amanda O’Neill, Rocky Adams, William Cummings, Don Newell and Tony Pantone
The board:
⢠Named Adams president and Newell as vice president;
⢠Will have former member Linda Silvidi continue as Hubbard’s representative to the Trumbull Career and Technical Center;
⢠Accepted donation of $16,500 from Greenwood’s Hubbard Chevrolet with $8,455 to the elementary principal’s fund to purchase a Chromebook cart and $8,045 to Hubbard athletics;
⢠Approved the appointment of Kevin Boyd to the Hubbard Public Library Board of Trustees, beginning April 1 and ending March 31, 2028;
⢠Announced the high school mock trial and middle school play will not take place this year due to COVID-19 restrictions. The adviser positions to the programs also were rescinded;
PRESENT: Julie Altawil, Brian Burkey, Ken Jones, Susan Brucoli and Denise Delida
The board:
• Named Altawil president and Burkey vice president;
• Was informed the second semester began Monday with students attending four days a week Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday with remote learning on Wednesdays. Officials noted 50 students, previously on all remote learning, are returning to in-person learning;
• Approved the 2021-22 calendar with first day for students Sept. 7 and last day June 2, 2022;
• Approved former board member Scott Lehman to serve as the board’s representative to the Trumbull Career / Technical Center board for a three-year term;
• Approved an agreement with Kent State University for College Credit-Plus courses for high school students for 2021-22;
PRESENT: Tarin Brown, Michele Garman, Beth Haddle and Ken Wallace
ABSENT: James Pegg
• Named Brown as president and Wallace as vice president;
• Approved committee appointments: Pegg, legislative liaison; Garman, athletics; Haddle, student achievement; and Garman, representative to Trumbull Career and Technical Center board and delegate to the Ohio School Boards Association annual conference in August;
• Approved the expenditure of $34,982 for enrolling 70 potential students in the online Educere / Mustang Academy for the school year;
• Heard from Superintendent Russell McQuaide that a leak in the high school gymnasium was found to be a steam pipe leak that was addressed by Proutt Boiler;
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WARREN The Warren Board of Education will have a special meeting 9 a.m. Saturday to interview six candidates seeking to fill the open board seat of Robert Faulkner, who stepped down in December.
Board of education President Patricia Limperos said the board has scheduled interviews in executive session for Alisha Alls, Jenna Daugherty, Lea Dotson, Todd Johnson, Jacqueline Shannon and Jaime Shuster.
Alls is a counselor and business owner with Greentree Counseling Center; Daugherty, an English as a second language teacher and tutor self employed and with VIPKid online education company; Dotson, an education policy analyst with Alliance for Climate Education; Johnson, pastor with Second Baptist Church, Warren; Shannon, certified cancer registrar with Cleveland Clinic; and Shuster, teacher, editor and research consultant with Hiram College, Kent State University and Cleveland State University.