After putting three programs under review at Choffin Career and Technical Center, Youngstown Schools CEO Justin Jennings announced on Tuesday that only two of those programs will remain.

While the Dental Assistance and Practical Nursing programs will remain, the school's Surgical Technology program will be cut.

Advocates for all three programs attended a meeting Tuesday evening to lobby for their programs to remain at Choffin, but Jennings explained why the district made the decision to cut the Surgical Technology program.

"In surgical tech now, the law kind of changed. In order for you to offer anything in there, it can't be certificate. You have to offer associate's degree. We don't offer associate's degree in there because of the staffing and different things. So over the next two years, you can't offer it if you don't have it, unless you go under someone else which is part of the reason we were looking at Eastern Gateway," Jennings said.

Choffin's Surgical Technology Interim Director, Emily Spletzer was hoping the school would work with a college to bridge the program to a two-year associate's degree, but it is unclear whether or not that will happen.

However, Jennings showed us a letter stating that the program does not have a qualified full-time director, they're expected to lose their accreditation.