Memphis City Schools Beat Blog

Miami educator Kriner Cash, who was picked as one of two finalists for the Memphis City Schools superintendent job Monday, has also been selected as a finalist for a similar job in Massachusetts.

A divided Waltham (Mass.) School Committee picked Cash, chief of accountability and systemwide performance for the Miami-Dade (Fla.) Public Schools, as one of their four finalists last night. In a separate action, the School Committee also voted to allow their internal candidates not brought forward as finalists to also have a second interview, according to The Daily News Tribune newspaper in Waltham, Mass.

Cash, who applied for several superintendency jobs in New England, told The Commercial Appeal last week he was most interested in the Memphis job. He spent nearly 10 years as the superintendent in Martha's Vineyard before heading south to Miami in 2004.

Cash and Nicholas Gledich, chief operations officer of the Orange County (Fla.) Public Schools are scheduled to return to Memphis early next month for a two-day round of interviews with the public and other community members on June 4 and 5.