The city and county school systems have a single school superintendent less than five months from the start of the first school year of the consolidated school system in Shelby County. Interim Memphis City Schools superintendent Dorsey Hopson was appointed interim Shelby County Schools superintendent at the first countywide school board meeting since the board approved a buyout last week of county schools superintendent John Aitken. The buyout took effect immediately. Hopson is county schools superintendent until the school board picks a permanent superintendent. There is no target date for the selection. "As long as it's interim," Hopson said before the board vote Tuesday, March 26. "You are not getting a pay raise," school board chairman Billy Orgel replied. Meanwhile, Hopson stepped up his role and became more vocal in recommendations to the board on the terms of the merger.