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Seventeen people, including Interim Supt. Adam Smith, submitted applications to become the next permanent leader of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system, the second largest in the state.
WATERBURY - Superintendent Verna Ruffin has hired legal counsel challenging Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr.'s letter to the board informing them the board's vote to override his veto to support negotiating a new three-year contract for the superintendent was invalid. The mayor wrote in his April 29
WATERBURY - Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr. said in a Board of Education meeting Thursday that Superintendent Verna Ruffin violated state Freedom of Information laws by sending emails to the entire board in which school board members discussed in an email thread concerns about charging parents for sum
WATERBURY -- Discussions at a Board of Education meeting Thursday night became heated between Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr. and Superintendent Verna Ruffin related to fissures between the superintendent, School Administrators of Waterbury and Waterbury Teachers Association.On March 21, Pernerewski v
WATERBURY - Many teachers attended the Board of Education meeting Thursday night, highlighting the need to be heard after a survey of 700 teachers showed most feel unsafe in the classroom and lack confidence in Superintendent Verna Ruffin. Mayor Paul K. Pernerewski Jr. vetoed the board's 9-1 vote Ma