The Youngstown Education Association (YEA) is mobilizing to defend public education in the face of an Ohio law putting a CEO is charge of public schools.

The law takes away the power of elected school boards to run the schools when the schools are labeled failing. Teachers can be fired, union contracts thrown out and schools can be closed and replaced with charter schools.

Enormous power over local public education in the hands of one executive.

YEA President Larry Ellis.

Larry Ellis: "It's the nationwide attack on public unions and public education.

You are in danger of losing your public schools in Youngstown. And so if you rally the community and get their support, they're the voters. They're the ones that are gonna be able to hopefully make enough noise to make a difference, that the legislators see that wait a minute, something's wrong here. Something's not right."