La. Superintendent Search: 21 Applicants
From the Associated Press, as published March 02, 2020, Lafourche Parish Daily Comet:
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP)– More than 20 people from across the country have applied to be Louisiana’s next state education superintendent, according to the state’s top school board.The 21 applicants include higher education professionals from schools in Louisiana, Texas and Tennessee, as well as public school teachers, a Louisiana teacher’s union representative and other consultants, administrators and educators holding posts nationwide. An Arkansas Department of Education official as well as a former Kentucky education chief have also applied for the position, news outlets reported.The current superintendent, John White, announced in January that he would be resigning March 11 after eight years in the role.Board of Elementary and Secondary Education member Kira Orange Jones is chairwoman of the working group that will help select White’s successor. She called the list of applicants ‘a very diverse and talented pool of educational leaders’ in an update released Saturday, one day after CONTINUE READING: La. Superintendent Search: 21 Applicants | deutsch29
