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The Rapides Parish School Board (RPSB) is a school district headquartered in Alexandria, Louisiana, United States. It serves Rapides Parish.
Rapides Parish school district consist of mainly elementary schools with most in the city and some in rural areas. There are about 24,000 children that attend schools in the district.
George Washington Bolton, founder of the Bolton family dynasty, was an early member of the RPSB. So was his son, James W. Bolton, for whom Bolton High School is named.
In 1969, the school board was sued for failure to desegregate its public schools under federal court orders. Filed by chief plaintiff Virgie Lee Valley, the suit noted that half of the schools in Wards 1 and 8 were still predominantly African-American. The plaintiffs sought a greater degree of racial integration than then required by federal courts. Until he left office in 1984, Rapides Parish District AttorneyEd Ware represented the board in the desegregation litigation.[1] The suit continued to be litigated periodically under the purview of Judge Nauman Scott of the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. In 2006, Judge Dee D. Drell declared the Rapides Parish schools racially unitary and finally closed the long-term litigation.[2]
In 2016, Patricia E. Powell (born August 1952),[3] a former teacher at Tioga Elementary School, won a judgment of $1,147,732, plus interest and court costs against the Rapides Parish School Board on grounds that her 2001 dismissal was unjust retaliation for published comments that she had made about a former short-term superintendent, Betty Cox. Judge Thomas Yeager of the Louisiana 9th Judicial District Court said that Powell was not afforded "a hearing at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner" and was "the victim of political retaliation." Powell was fired under former Superintendent Patsy Jenkins. None of the school board members at the time are still serving. One of Powell's attorneys, Mildred Methvin, an Alexandria native, is an alternative dispute resolutionmediator from Lafayette. In 2003, Powell wrote a book about her experiences with the school board.[4]
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