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A year ago, in an anti-incumbent mood, East Baton Rouge Parish voters elected six newcomers to the parish School Board. These six individuals inherited Sito Narcisse, the at-times controversial schools

Without comment Thursday, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, two-thirds of whom are new members, agreed to pull a proposal to start contract negotiations with Superintendent Sito Narcisse.

After a long, often rancorous debate, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board on Thursday voted by a narrow margin to reject rehiring Superintendent Sito Narcisse for four more years,

Supporters of East Baton Rouge Parish schools superintendent Sito Narcisse are wasting no time in trying to keep the 47-year-old veteran educator at the helm of the state’s second largest

The East Baton Rouge Parish school system is parting ways with the private company that has maintained its school buildings for 23 years and is going instead with a Knoxville-based

As expected, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board has blessed a request from the parish’s biggest taxpayer for a multimillion-dollar tax break on two big upcoming projects. ExxonMobil’s victory

As the parent of a middle school child in Baton Rouge, I was heartened to see our school board stand up to Superintendent Sito Narcisses original plan to rearrange the

The East Baton Rouge School Board has agreed to extend the school day for middle and high schools by 15 minutes, starting Monday and lasting through the fall semester, to

A 10-week fight over the budget will soon give way to a long, perhaps longer debate about how the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board and Superintendent Sito Narcisse should

In a rare loss for Superintendent Sito Narcisse, the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board decisively rejected his plan to close a middle school in Baton Rouge for kids expelled