Kentucky schools have eliminated about 975 positions, including 455 teachers, to cope with cuts in the state's two-year budget, according to a state education group.

The Kentucky School Boards Association conducted a survey that found nearly 90 of the state's 174 school districts have cut about 455 certified positions and about 520 classified positions from their payrolls. Teachers are certified staff, and teachers' aides, also known as para-educators, are classified staff.

The reductions affect about 1 percent of the state's 42,000 teachers.

.The worry is that (layoffs) will be worse in the '09-'10 school year,. said Brad Hughes, spokesman for the Kentucky School Boards Association.

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