Ouachita Parish School Board is a school district headquartered in Monroe, Louisiana, United States.
The district serves areas in Ouachita Parish except for areas within the City of Monroe; those areas are served by the Monroe City School System.
Neal Lane "Lanny" Johnson, the superintendent for the Franklin Parish School Board in Winnsboro is a former superintendent in Ouachita Parish. Johnson also served in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1976-1980. He was defeated in a bid for the State Senate in the 1979 nonpartisan blanket primary. Dan Richey, then of Ferriday, won the seat after Johnson, a Democrat was eliminated in the primary.
One of the former members of the Ouachita Parish School Board was the Monroe native Marc Swayze, a comic book artist and writer.
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