District outlines staffing, transfer and reassignment plan for three new schools

Miss Sauls, the Culver School District chief human resources and strategic planning officer, presented the district’s staffing process for opening three new schools and said the district intends to prioritize internal transfers and finish most placement work by winter.

"We are operating under the belief that we have all of the staff that we need to staff our new schools currently in our existing schools," Sauls said, describing a preference for internal transfers and a two-wave process that begins with voluntary transfer interest and concludes with reassignment where necessary. She told the board principals at both sending and receiving schools will have to approve transfers and that the district will follow board policy and state regulations.

Sauls said the district launched a…