Baton Rouge's New Superintendent: To a Breakaway District and Back

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published June 19, 2015 at 4:14 AM EDT

Warren Drake had success running the Zachary School District, and then went over to the state Department of Education for a seemingly good gig working on curriculum.

Now he’s the acting and incoming superintendent of the East Baton Rouge Parish District. Why would he want to do that?

Because this is where he started, in 1974, as a teacher and then administrator, before becoming Zachary’s superintendent for its first 10 years after it broke away from the parish district.

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Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

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