Tuesday’s blue wave has shifted both the racial and partisan balance on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board. A new nine-member board will take office in January with a majority of Black elected representatives for the first time in its history, as well as a rare Democratic majority.
The shift in party control could revive issues such as redrawing the election maps that took effect with this year’s election and forging collective bargaining agreements with employee unions.
Outgoing school board member Dadrius Lanus, who is executive director of the Louisiana Democratic Party, celebrated the news…