NATCHEZ — The federal civil trial against the Natchez-Adams County School District by a former administrator alleging improper firing has been moved to mid-September.

Cindy Idom’s case against the district — which was originally set for trial Aug. 10 — was initially bumped to Aug. 24 to allow the school district to take further depositions after a last-minute disclosure of additional information by the plaintiff.

But the court issued an order this week that will again move the trial to Sept. 14 at the request of the defense.

The order came after Deputy Superintendent Tanisha Smith advised the court she had a previously-planned trip out of the country that had not conflicted with the original trial date but did conflict with the Aug. 24 date. The district’s motion asking for the change was filed Aug. 12.

Idom’s case was filed in May 2014, and names the district, Superintendent Frederick Hill and Smith as defendants.

Idom was fired by the district at the beginning of the 2013-2014 school year after 11 years as a principal at West Elementary School and shortly after she was reassigned to Frazier Elementary School against her wishes.

In her initial filing Idom alleged — among other things — she was bullied for racial reasons and faced standards black principals did not. Idom is white, and Hill and Smith are black.

Idom’s claims also include that inadequate school facilities in the midst of a district-wide reorganization and the assignment of poor teachers to West Elementary — as well s a “hostile work environment” created by Hill and Smith — contributed to the school’s low performance during that year’s standardized testing period.

Idom’s lawsuit also alleges her later transfer to Frazier did not give her an opportunity to improve test scores at West — which had only one year of testing behind it — and when she was removed as principal at Frazier, she was offered a teaching position. The lawsuit calls the teaching offer “a degrading demotion.”

Idom is seeking unspecified damages for lost past and future wages; mental anguish and emotional distress; damages to reputation, pain and suffering, humiliation and embarrassment; actual and compensatory damages; incidental and consequential damages; punitive damages; attorney’s fees and “other damages to be established.”