Wake County school leaders announced tonight the appointments and transfers of seven permanent and seven interim principals.

Scott Lyons was named principal of Enloe High in Raleigh with a salary of $99,666. He's been principal of Leesville Road High since 2009. He used to be an assistant principal at Enloe.

Christopher McCabe will be principal of Heritage Middle in Wake Forest with a salary of $93,303. He's been principal of North Forest Pines Drive Elementary since 2007.

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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.

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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.

Wake County school administrators are recommending that only Leesville Road Middle and West Lake Elementary change their bell schedules for the 2011-12 school year.

In recommendations being presented at today's school board work session, staff is calling for leaving almost all the schools on their current times. Leesville would run from 8:15 a.m. to 3 p.m. instead of 8:05 a.m. to 3 p.m. West Lake would run from 8:20 a.m. to 2:50 p.m. instead of 8:20 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The new Walnut Creek Elementary would run from 8:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. This would be 45 minutes more than the typical elementary school schedule, potentially allowing for more instructional time.

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Wake County elementary students are bearing the brunt now for the state rejecting the 329 K-3 class size waivers

As noted in today's article, many of the 66 schools that had asked for the waivers are in the process of reorganizing classes to get them under 25 students. You're seeing new classes, track changes, multi-grade classes and classes consisting of children of different tracks.

Many of the schools are implementing the changes next week. 

Chris Augustine was the lone candidate to file today to run in this fall's school board elections.

Augustine, 43, a self-employed business owner from Cary who lives near West Lake Elementary school, became the fourth person to run for the District 2 board seat. He's talking about reforming the system to give teachers more control over education.

"Teachers unions and school boards are taking away from what students need to learn," Augustine said.

We've got new principals tonight at Garner High, Ligon Middle, Fuquay-Varina Elementary and West Lake Elementary.

Drew Cook was promoted from assistant principal to principal of Garner High. He replaces Mike Holton, who cited medical reasons for his departure.

Cook, who has worked as a teacher and AP at Garner High since 1997, will receive $97,167 a year,

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Bio sheets now at end of post. 

We've got some comings and goings among principals and senior administrators.

Here's one a lot of you guys have been waiting for. Scott Lyons will become principal of Leesville Road High School in North Raleigh, replacing Stephen Gainey, who became assistant superintendent for human resources.

Lyons has been principal of Ligon Middle School since 2005. He used to be a teacher and assistant principal at Enloe High.

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Bio sheets now at end of post.