Livingston schedules superintendent interviews
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LIVINGSTON — The Livingston Parish School Board will interview candidates competing to become the school system’s next superintendent starting at 2 p.m. Tuesday.
The board reached a consensus on the interview date and times for its three candidates after discussion Thursday.
Board President Keith Martin told members they would develop a set of questions to ask each candidate and finalize those starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
But the meeting will also be open and provide an opportunity for the public to ask the candidates questions, too.
The board is working to replace Superintendent Randy Pope, who is taking sick leave July 1 and will retire early next year.
Two school officials who serve directly under Pope and a Dillard University program director have applied. Martin announced their names Thursday. Assistant Superintendents John Watson and Bill Spear have been teachers, coaches, assistant principals, principals and administrators in the parish school system since the early to mid-1980s.
Camacia Smith-Ross is a former Orleans Parish schools coordinator and now is director of Dillard University’s Upward Bound program.
The board agreed to schedule interviews in three one-hour blocks: Watson, 2 p.m.; Smith-Ross, 3 p.m.; and Spear, 4 p.m.
Board members scheduled the interview times in the daytime because the school system has high school graduations through most of the week in the evenings. The board could select a replacement for Pope as soon as May 22.
In other business, the board approved the low bidder for a four-classroom expansion of Levi Milton Elementary School in the Walker area at a cost of $609,000 for the base bid. With two alternates, the bid by J.F. Juge Construction costs $641,000.
That bid came in after the project was rebid under a new architect. The addition will be built with a concrete modular design.
The board also unanimously upheld the expulsion of a Denham Springs Freshman High School student, who was not named.
The board reached a consensus on the interview date and times for its three candidates after discussion Thursday.
Board President Keith Martin told members they would develop a set of questions to ask each candidate and finalize those starting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
But the meeting will also be open and provide an opportunity for the public to ask the candidates questions, too.
The board is working to replace Superintendent Randy Pope, who is taking sick leave July 1 and will retire early next year.
Two school officials who serve directly under Pope and a Dillard University program director have applied. Martin announced their names Thursday. Assistant Superintendents John Watson and Bill Spear have been teachers, coaches, assistant principals, principals and administrators in the parish school system since the early to mid-1980s.
Camacia Smith-Ross is a former Orleans Parish schools coordinator and now is director of Dillard University’s Upward Bound program.
The board agreed to schedule interviews in three one-hour blocks: Watson, 2 p.m.; Smith-Ross, 3 p.m.; and Spear, 4 p.m.
Board members scheduled the interview times in the daytime because the school system has high school graduations through most of the week in the evenings. The board could select a replacement for Pope as soon as May 22.
In other business, the board approved the low bidder for a four-classroom expansion of Levi Milton Elementary School in the Walker area at a cost of $609,000 for the base bid. With two alternates, the bid by J.F. Juge Construction costs $641,000.
That bid came in after the project was rebid under a new architect. The addition will be built with a concrete modular design.
The board also unanimously upheld the expulsion of a Denham Springs Freshman High School student, who was not named.
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