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What Business Interests Get with New School Board Majority

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries

Published December 12, 2014 at 6:50 AM CST

BRAC CEO Adam Knapp

BRAC CEO Adam Knapp

Business-backed candidates secured a new 5-to-4 majority on the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board last Saturday.

FuturePAC, which is affiliated with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, put up about $50,000 for candidates in these school board elections. BRAC CEO Adam Knapp discusses what business interests are investing in.

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Amy Jeffries

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.