Webster Parish School Board

The Webster Parish School Board operates from offices at 1442 Sheppard Street in Minden, Louisiana.

Webster Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Minden in northwestern Louisiana, United States. The district operates public schools in Webster Parish.

The district is governed by an elected and compensated school board. New superintendent Daniel Rawls begins duties on January 7, 2014.[1]

Schools

Primary schools

PK-6

5-6

PK and 6

K-5

Secondary schools

6-8

7-8

6-12

K-12

9-12


Alternative

Notable employees

The three most recent state representatives from Webster Parish, Everett Doerge (1992-1998), Jean Doerge (1998-2012), and Gene Reynolds (since 2012), were all formerly employed by the Webster Parish School Board.

Former school board president and current District 8 member Ronnie Broughton ran for representative against both Jean Doerge and Reynolds. He has left the Republican Party and is the state chairman of the Constitution Party,[2]

At least two other previous state representatives, J. J. Carter and Parey Branton, were former members of the Webster Parish School Board; Branton, a board president.

Dorothy Garrett Smith, a WPSB member from 1971 to 1987, was from 1989 until her death in 1990 the first woman president of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education.[3]

Former superintendent E. S. Richardson was from 1936 to 1941 the president of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

Former board president William G. Stewart was the namesake of the former William G. Stewart Elementary School, which operated in Minden from 1949 to 2011.[4]

References

  1. "Jeri Bloxom, Superintendent signs two-year contract". Minden Press-Herald. Retrieved December 28, 2013.
  2. "Constitution Party meets possible presidential nominee". The Alexandria Town Talk. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
  3. "Heart Attack Claims Dorothy Smith", Minden Press-Herald, August 9, 1990, p. 1
  4. ""William Green Stewart" in Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana". Chicago and Nashville, Tennessee: The Southern Publishing Company. 1890. Retrieved March 14, 2015.

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