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A deputy education commissioner will petition the state Board of Education next Thursday to return the Pine Bluff School District to full local control by November, although the district superintendent feels that could happen in September.
Pine Bluff School District Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree broke down the importance of the Aug. 8 millage increase election and detailed the differences among consolidation, annexation and mergers in The Commercial's latest episode of its webcast series, "The Newsroom."
Voters in the Pine Bluff School District will have a chance to approve or reject a 0.9-mill increase in the Dollarway attendance zone to 41.7 mills this election season. The request may come as a surprise to many since the district had not previously promoted the increase until Monday afternoon, when district Superintendent Barbara Warren issued a news release on the ballot measure. Early voting for the Nov. 8 general election began Monday.