More details to come later but there's now a proposal on the table to collapse 14 multi-track Wake County year-round schools to a single track.

Superintendent Tony Tata proposed today giving flexibility to principals at under-enrolled year-round schools the flexibility to go to a single track for the 2011-12 school year. He said the principals would pick the track.

The schools identified by Tata are those that are at under 100 percent of what would be their single-track capacity: Alston Ridge, Ballentine, Banks Road, East Garner, Harris Creek, Highcroft, Lake Myra, Rand Road, River Bend, Timber Drive, Wakefield and West Lake elementary schools; and East Cary and Holly Grove middle schools.

UPDATE

Tata says he'll come back in May with a specific list of schools to recommend. While he didn't specify a number, it will likely not be all of the 14 year-round schools that are below 100 percent of single-track capacity.

You can understand why Casey Ash is leaving the Wake school system to take a job teaching social studies at a much higher paying charter school in New York City.

As some of you have already noted, Ash was mentioned in a New York Times article last week about a new charter school opening in September in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan.

Ash was billed as being part "of an eight-teacher dream team" that will receive a salary of $125,000. They also will be eligible for bonuses, based on schoolwide performance, of up to $25,000 in the second year.