LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A public charter school system serving nearly 3,000 students in Little Rock has a new leader. After a nationwide search, eStem Public Charter Schools selected Cherie Labat, a career educator whose last post was with the University of Southern Mississippi, to be chief executive officer of the charter system, officials said in a news release Friday.
For too long, the old Hunt High School complex on 20th Street North in Columbus has existed primarily as a reminder of a time gone by, when Hunt High School was a point of pride and touchtone for the Black citizens of Columbus during the years prior to integration.