Jackson Parish School Board To Meet on Monday – Carter Hearing Postponed

The Jackson Parish School Board will hold its regularly scheduled monthly meeting at 11:00 am on Monday, November 2nd, in the conference room of the Jackson Parish School District Central Office, located at 315 Pershing Hwy. in Jonesboro, but the special hearing that was scheduled to decide whether or not Jackson Parish School Superintendent Billy Carter would keep his job has been postponed. No date has been set for when the hearing will be rescheduled.

Jackson Parish School Board Meeting Agenda

  1. Invocation– Paulette Belton
  2. Pledge of Allegiance – Dennis Clary
  3. Call to Order
  4. Consider approving the minutes as presented from the regularly scheduled meetings held on
    October 5, 2026.
  5. Consider approving the minutes as presented from the Special Called meetings held on
    October 1, 2026 and October 8, 2026.
  6. Consider appointment of Reggie Abrams to serve as the Hearing Officer for the upcoming
    hearing to be held in accordance with La.R.S. 17:54.
  7. Consider adopting items per the Committee Reports attached hereto.
  8. Consider adopting a resolution ordering and calling a special election to be held in the
    Consolidated School District No. 1 of the Parish of Jackson, State of Louisiana, to authorize
    the continuation of a special tax therein, making application to the State Bond Commission,
    and providing for other matters in connection therewith.
  9. Superintendent’s Comments
  10. Adjourn

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