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E ditor, The Commercial:

This is the third part of a series on the state of the Pine Bluff School District.

About 20 Pine Bluff School District supporters attended Thursday's Arkansas Board of Education meeting in Little Rock, with some stepping to the podium to ask the trustees to remove Barbara Warren as the district's superintendent.

Pine Bluff School District students and residents spoke loudly -- they did not want a temporary relocation of Pine Bluff High School to Jack Robey Junior High School, even if it was for safety reasons.

A group of 140 stakeholders in the Pine Bluff School District issued a "vote of no confidence" in Superintendent Barbara Warren.

Pine Bluff School District citizens reviewed three school board zone scenarios presented by the Arkansas Geographic Information Systems Office during a town hall Tuesday night at the Dollarway High School cafeteria.

Nearly a week after protests broke out at Pine Bluff High, the community and students are asking for more security and accountability.

PBSD ignored

Superintendent Barbara Warren's plan was to outline the goals of a Pine Bluff School District facilities committee with minimal back-and-forth between her and attendees at a Tuesday night meeting, but the more than 100 people inside Pine Bluff High School's cafeteria made their voices heard anyway.