NATCHEZ — School officials and lawyers scheduled a fifth date for the continuance of a hearing that will determine if Natchez-Adams School District Superintendent Anthony Morris will keep his job.

The closed hearing was recessed last week until June 23 after it was unable to conclude after two additional days of proceedings, school board attorney Bruce Kuehnle said.

The hearing commenced for two days in April, was continued for two more days this month and will start again seven days before Morris’s contract is proposed to end in June.

Morris requested the hearing after the NASD school board voted at its Jan. 20 meeting not to renew his contract, which expires June 30 of this year.

Kuehnle said it is the right of Morris, like any licensed employee of the state, to request a hearing urging reconsideration of the termination of his contract.