An Arkansas Department of Education assistant commissioner has been appointed the new superintendent of the Pine Bluff School District after it was taken over by the state, according to an Associated Press report. Jeremy Owoh was appointed to the job by Arkansas Education Commissioner Johnny Key during a Friday meeting of the state Board of Education. The state board removed Monica McMurry, the interim superintendent of the school district, on Thursday and dissolved the district's school board. The state board declared the district was fiscally distressed and unlikely to have enough money to operate by the end of the school year...
