The Buffalo School Board is fighting over boarding schools for the most fragile children and this time the superintendent is interested.
School Board Member Carl Paladino has long pushed for boarding schools, citing the SEED schools in Washington and some other public examples. The idea hasn't gone far in the past but he's bringing it up again.
City Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash cites the potential value to homeless students and the availability of vacant schoolhouses for space.
Paladino said boarding offers an option to many students who have few options for a better life.
"Many of the students in the BPS are from highly at-risk homes or are characterized as homeless and statistics bear out that without appropriate guidance, nutrition, development of study habits and exercise from a young age, at-risk students are not given a fair opportunity for education and become doomed to failed lives," Paladino said.
Cash has agreed to study how much need there is here for a boarding school.
The proposal is strongly opposed by some members of the school board and has been strongly opposed in the past.
