Flush with the proceeds of a recent multimillion-dollar bond sale, several Baton Rouge public high schools are in line for repairs, renovations and additions early in the new year.
A second, more expensive slate of projects — primarily related to high school athletics — will come later in the year, as local school leaders plan to bundle them together in hopes of securing better prices.
This series of projects, which East Baton Rouge Parish Superintendent LaMont Cole first proposed in August, aims to enhance “the high school experience,” an area where Cole says Baton Rouge schools have fallen behind. The parish School Board in October agreed to the proposed $40 million bond sale…