San Francisco Unified offers interim superintendent permanent position

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- San Francisco Unified School District has given interim Superintendent Maria Su the job permanently.

The board voted late last night to extend Su's contract.

The decision comes more than a year after she took over to address the district's budget crisis. She was able to balance the budget this year with drastic cuts.

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The district is facing a $114 million deficit next year, and the school board wants to revisit the possibility of closing schools again.

"We have to be more surgical. We have to be more mindful about the programs that we may have to put on pause, the reductions in perhaps core services that we're used to having," Su said in a previous interview.

Su won support, despite not being endorsed by the teacher's union; it wanted someone with a background in education.