After sailing to victory four years ago, Carla Powell-Lewis has a tough path to reelection to the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, with three challengers seeking to replace her.
Much of Powell-Lewis’ current trouble stems from her July 2024 dramatic public disavowal of the well-heeled education reform groups that backed her successful run two years earlier. Powell-Lewis broke with those groups after they opposed promoting longtime district administrator Adam Smith to permanent superintendent.
“None of the stuff we have done here today as a board is about children. It’s about money,” Powell-Lewis declared that night…