BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - The East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has selected as its next superintendent former Zachary Superintendent Warren Drake.
Drake promised Thursday to make all nine board members look good.
Drake, who spent a decade overseeing the top-ranked Zachary school system, was the first of 10 people to apply for the parish job, and on March 20, the board unanimously named him its top contender.
The Advocate reports (https://bit.ly/1P4LVuN ) board members quickly settled on the 63-year-old native of Homer after just 45 minutes of discussion behind closed doors.
It’s not clear when Drake will start. Outgoing Superintendent Bernard Taylor’s three-year contract expires June 30 and he has shown no signs he will leave before that date.
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