As the possibility of a St. George school district gets closer, the leader of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system is forging ahead with under-development plans to upgrade schools in that new city, especially Woodlawn High.
“They are our students today,” Superintendent LaMont Cole said. “And I have a responsibility to the students we serve today to not leave them out of the equation.”
Cole’s statements came Thursday as he successfully persuaded the parish School Board to proceed with the sale of $40 million in bonds in November. The bond proceeds will fund a series of still-being-determined projects to enhance “the high school experience.” Examples of the kind of projects include substandard athletic turf, stages without curtains, antiquated lighting systems in auditoriums, out-of-date science labs, old weight rooms and rundown press boxes…