Closures leads to new principals at nine Baton Rouge schools. See also new administrators.

East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole has moved a number of principals this summer, resulting in nine schools starting the school year with new leaders.

Cole also continues to make changes at the Central Office, including hiring two top administrators for newly created positions. And he’s still trying to fill four more high-level administrative posts, two of them also new positions.

Several of the principal moves were prompted by a districtwide realignment plan championed by Cole that closed nine schools in May. Four of the affected principals have been reassigned to lead other schools, and three have moved to administrative jobs. Two more closed schools, both charter schools, have reopened with new names, management and leadership…

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