The next round

of teacher transfers within the Fayette County school district will be

announced Monday at a called meeting of the Board of Education.

Last month,

board members approved a restructuring of personnel and responsibilities

starting at the top, naming Fred Oliver to the new position of Deputy

Superintendent, answering directly to schools chief John DeCotis, and

consolidating positions for curriculum and operations at both the elementary

and secondary levels into just two jobs.

Pam Riddle

will be the new Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum,overseeing all

grade levels, while Wayne Robinson is Assistant Superintendent for Operations.

DeCotis said

as many as seven high-paying administrative jobs have been eliminated

in the past year due to retirements, resignations and reassignment of

duties among the three new assistant superintendents, representing savings

of hundreds of thousdands of dollars in salaries and benefits.

"We recognized

that if we were going to be tightening staffing at the classroom level,

we needed to start in the central office," he said.

The school

district, faced with a revenue shortfall because of the slow economy and

cuts in education funding at the state level, is trying every conceivable

method to come up with a balanced budget for the next school year, even

though it will open two new schools in the fall.

To make ends

meet, the system is trying to limit the number of new, outside hires and

make the most efficient use of the teachers and administrators it has,

board members have been told. But that often means uprooting longtime

favorites and breaking up principal-teacher relationships.

DeCotis said

all of the transfer possibilities are looked at closely by administrators

before decisions are made to move teachers. In the first round of moves

last month, which included more than 110 transfers many teachers to new

openings at Whitewater High and Crabapple Lane Elementary there was little

grumbling.

Most principal

transfers were also handled last month, leaving just East Fayette and

North Fayette jobs open. The superintendent's office would not comment

on whether those jobs will be filled next week.

The personnel

moves to be considered Monday should represent the bulk of transfers mandated

The meeting

is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. at school board offices on Stonewall Avenue.