The Buffalo Board of Education met in special session Monday afternoon to select an interim superintendent. The board named Will Keresztes as the temporary successor to Superintendent Pamela Brown.
Keresztes has been the district's associate superintendent. He will serve until the incoming school board names a longer-term interim superintendent in July.
Keresztes immediately moved to make changes by recommending that academically troubled Martin Luther King School stay open.
The board at its special meeting also approved a termination agreement for Brown. She has served as superintendent for just two years.
The buyout negotiated by lawyers for both the district and Brown provides her with with the $217,000 in salary she would have earned next year, plus a $10,000 bonus from the 2012-13 school year, more than $9,000 in unused vacation pay and $2,000 to cover a short-term consultant period with the district.
Board member Carl Paladino voted against the buyout, claiming it's too generous. He says the outgoing board majority pushed it through.
"They rammed it down our throats," Paladino said. "There was no debate on the terms."
