Ashley Smith Jiles says a rarely used Louisiana law gives her mom the right to run for school board in either district 4 or 5. Smith says her daughter, a 2001 Carroll Graduate and Southern University Law school is typical of the Carroll High School excellence she wants to continue as a board member; she refuses to drop out of the race
When Deborah Smith filed to challenge incumbent school board member Daryl Berry for the District 4 seat, Berry didn’t worry because he knew something that Smith didn’t know. Berry knew that the school board recently redrew the district lines in a way that Smith, an active Carroll Alumni member, and Berry critic, wouldn’t be able to challenge him because Smith and all the residents on her street had been shifted to another district.
Berry called Smith last week and dropped his…
