N.Y.C. Educator Is Named Chief in Cleveland

By Kerry A. White

A longtime educator credited with raising achievement at several of New York City's worst schools has been named the new head of the Cleveland school system.

Mayor Michael R. White, who recently took the reins of the embattled district, last week named Barbara Byrd-Bennett, 48, the district's new chief executive officer. Her four-year contract pays $155,000 a year.

At a visit to a Cleveland elementary school on the day she was named, Ms. Byrd-Bennett said her tenure would be one of marked change, according...