BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo school board appointed Dr. Kriner Cash as superintendent of the urban upstate district Tuesday night.
Cash was approved by a 7-0 vote during a special meeting Tuesday.
Two board members were absent.
School board members have told local media he’ll be paid $275,000 a year.
A district spokeswoman says she can’t confirm the sum because a contract hasn’t been signed yet.
Cash was superintendent of the now defunct Memphis City Schools from 2008 until 2013.
He fills the Buffalo vacancy left by Pamela Brown’s resignation in June 2014.
Among Cash’s new duties is acting as receiver for 25 Buffalo schools classified as either struggling or persistently struggling.
Under the state’s new receivership law, if things don’t begin to significantly improve in one or two years, an outside receiver would take over.
