Veteran educator Bonita Coleman is the new temporary superintendent of Canton Public School District.
Coleman comes to the district after more than three decades of working in schools in Mississippi and Maryland. Most recently, she served as superintendent of Ocean Springs School District for a decade before retiring in 2023.
According to a Canton schools press release, Coleman’s tenure in Ocean Springs was “characterized by a disciplined focus on student achievement, leadership development, organizational effectiveness, fiscal stewardship, safety, and continuous improvement.”
She previously worked in the Clinton and Jackson school districts, led instructional development and early childhood education at the Mississippi Department of Education and served as a professor at Tougaloo College and Jackson State University — both her alma maters…