Some Wake County school administrators are sweating their futures now that school board members have asked interim Superintendent Donna Hargens to review whether jobs can be eliminated.

As noted in today's article, board members asked Hargens to look at more than a dozen senior administrative positions and come up with a recommendation on those positions next week.

Cutting some of those jobs could help offset the cost of restoring some of the parent counseling positions at Project Enlightenment. The board had also asked Hargens to make a recommendation on those jobs next week.

Here's a recap of the rest of today's Wake County school board work session.

The board asked interim Superintendent Donna Hargens to come with a recommendation next week on whether to restore any of the nine parent counselor positions cut from Project Enlightenment. No specific number was set but the board is looking at three to five positions.

The board also asked Hargens to come back with a recommendation on whether any of more than a dozen senior administrative positions identified by the board can be cut.

There's an interesting mix of Wake County school administrators who are hearing this year's student transfer appeals.

You've got people such as former principals David Ansbacher, Virginia Cardenas and Darryl Fisher and Assistant Superintendent David Holdzkom. You've also got people who've never worked in a school such as Marilyn Moody, senior director for child nutrition; Betty Parker, director of real estate services; and Greg Thomas, director of communications.

The mix is deliberate. Each two-member panel consists of one person with school experience and one person with no school experience.

"Granite High," the unflattering nickname that some critics bestowed upon the new Forest Ridge High School, is going to require more money to cover road improvements around the property.

As noted in today's article, staff told the school board on Tuesday that road improvements mandated by the state DOT and Raleigh will cost $7.4 million. While some of that money is budgeted, it's going to require an infusion of $5.7 million in cash to cover the work.

You got the feeling the price tag was going to be big when staff gave a long introduction about the project that justified why that site was chosen over others proposed by people such as Rolesville Mayor Frank Eagles.

County commissioners have shot down another land deal for a new school.

As noted in today's article by Michael Biesecker, commissioners voted 4-3 on Monday to turn down a $5.1 million high school and elementary school site north of Raleigh. A majority of the commissioners were unhappy about the estimated $2 million added cost for clearing the rocky land.

"Other than the Hope Diamond, I don't know many people who are going to pay that much for a rock," said Commissioner Paul Coble in the article.

This could be the next flashpoint in the ongoing fight between the school board and county commissioners.

As noted in today's North Raleigh News article by Michael Biesecker, some commissioners are not happy with the school district's request to buy 89 acres off Forestville Road for a new high school. They're not happy with the $5.1 million asking price, especially when it could cost another $2 million to clear the rocky site.

"We aren't buying the best land in Wake County," said Joe Bryan, chairman of the board of commissioners. "We seem to be buying some of the toughest land — in a recession."

But Betty Parker. the school district's director of real estate services, told commissioners the property was still the best land available for the money.