Now that Pine Bluff School District voters have approved a tax increase to a unified rate of 47.7 mills, administrators will reach out to teachers and students for their input on how the new Pine Bluff High School should look inside the walls.
A deputy education commissioner will petition the state Board of Education next Thursday to return the Pine Bluff School District to full local control by November, although the district superintendent feels that could happen in September.
Pine Bluff School District Superintendent Jennifer Barbaree broke down the importance of the Aug. 8 millage increase election and detailed the differences among consolidation, annexation and mergers in The Commercial s latest episode of its webcast series, "The Newsroom."