(AP) — After two failed attempts by the East Baton Rouge School Board at making a choice for superintendent, one board member switched his vote, paving the way for the selection of Montgomery, Ala., Superintendent John Dilworth as its next school superintendent.
The board initially deadlocked in a 6-6 vote Thursday night between Dilworth and Bonita Coleman-Potter, deputy superintendent of instruction for the past three years in Jackson, Miss.
Dilworth has spent 27 years in education, 17 of them in Caddo Parish schools in Shreveport.
He has spent the past two years as the superintendent in Montgomery.
Dilworth said family ties to Louisiana led him to seek the Baton Rouge job.—-Contact The Daily Reveille’s news staff at [email protected]