A panel discussion on the roles and responsibilities of school boards and school board members, held June 25, 2025 at the main Akron-Summit County Public Library downtown, was sponsored by the League of Women Voters of the Akron area, the Akron NAACP, Akron Promise and Honesty for Ohio Education. Panelists were Reno Contipelli, northeast regional manager for the Ohio School Boards Association; Ana Chapman, a member of the Berea City School District Board of Education; and Malia Lewis, president of the Board of Education of the Cleveland Heights-University Heights City School District. Lathardus Goggins, a social and emotional learning specialist at Applied Academic Solutions and education chair for the Akron NAACP, moderated the discussion and asked the questions.
Signal Akron posted this audio stream as well as a transcript of this event here.
