H. Allen Smith, executive director of the Summit Schools Network in Denver, has withdrawn from consideration to be the next superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish School System, leaving two finalists to be interviewed next week. The school board will hold workshops with Maria Pitre-Martin, director of K-12 curriculum and instruction for the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, at 5 p.m. Tuesday. Bernard Taylor, superintendent of schools in Grand Rapids, Mich., will be interviewed Wednesday, also at 5 p.m. Both workshops will take place at the Instructional Resource Center, 1022 S. Foster Dr. The public is encouraged to attend the interviews, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions of the candidates. A special board meeting will be held Thursday, at which a single finalist is expected to be announced, a system spokesman says.
EBR schedules superintendent interviews as one finalist withdraws
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