Louisiana state superintendent requests meeting after no vote taken on new EBR Schools leader [Video]

BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) — The State Superintendent of Education is requesting a meeting with East Baton Rouge School Board members as the parish’s school district remains without a permanent superintendent.

After a lengthy meeting that stretched into early Friday morning, the board took no action in the ongoing superintendent search. When the meeting began on Thursday afternoon, the selection of a superintendent was first on the agenda. Early in the meeting, the board voted to move the superintendent selection to the end, to allow the board to discuss other business.

When the board finally took up the issue of the superintendent, some board members floated the idea of extending Adam Smith in his current position as interim superintendent. Other board members asked for time and to schedule another meeting for next week.

East Baton Rouge school board members announce why interim superintendent Adam Smith was not selected

The board …