Next year's Wake County student reassignment plan is a work in progress with everything approved by the old school board under review with new suggestions coming in all the time.

During Tuesday's work session, Laura Evans, senior director of growth and planning, laid out to the board an explanation of the assignments being considered and the direction they're leaning toward. It will help to have your copy of the handout present.

The ensuing discussion showed how the thinking has changed to reflect the new student assignment policy. Multiple times, Evans talked about bringing students home, having them attend their neighborhood schools and moving the least number possible for stability.

Wake released data on Tuesday showing a majority of applicants were placed at magnet and calendar schools this year.

But the district changed the way it reported the data. You decide which way is better. (Go to the end of the post for school-by-school data.)

In past years, it was a simple acceptance and rejection rate. This year, Wake reported a placement rate instead.

I'm going to try to hit some of the high points of the plan here.

First, the three-year plan affects 26,771 students. It starts with 8,162 students in 2009-10, 14,200 in 2010-11 and 4,409 in 2011-12.

Administrators are recommending unconverting Knightdale Elementary School for the 2009-10 school year. But it comes with a catch.

UPDATE

Click here for the link to the plan. Demand on Wake's site is high now so be patient. 

How your children's teachers rate their schools could surprise you.

As noted in today's article, some schools got scalding evaluations on the N.C. Teacher Working Conditions Survey. How comfortable would you be if you knew that a majority of the teachers at your child's school didn't think it was a good place to teach and learn?

Can you guess which Wake school had the highest percentage of teachers who say they plan to continue teaching there in the next two years?

The percentage of schools meeting state expectation shot up statewide, except in Wake.

Based on new ABCs data, 82 percent of the state's public schools met growth expectations on state exams this past school year to earn teacher bonuses, up from 71.9 percent. It dipped slightly in Wake to 84.1 percent from 85 percent the previous year.

Click here for the online story. Click here to look for individual schools statewide.

The suspended principal of Knightdale Elementary School is getting a new job and a pay cut.

This afternoon, the school board transferred Michael Williams over to Wakefield High School in North Raleigh to become one of the assistant principals. School officials say Williams will take a cut in his $55,000 a year salary.

School officials aren't saying if the suspension and transfer are connected to ongoing investigations of test irregularities at Knightdale Elementary.

Test administration is a big deal because it impacts No Child Left Behind  and state ABCs bonuses. DPI is waiting for Wake to complete its investigation first.

We've got the unusual situation of a principal being suspended by the school system.

Michael S. Williams, Knightdale Elementary School's principal since 2007, was suspended with pay on July 14. Michael Evans, a school district spokesman, declined to say why Williams was suspended due to personnel regulations.

"We knew there were problems there, but that's [Superintendent Del Burns'] call on suspending him," said Rosa Gill, chairwoman of the school board.