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Dear Editor:
Most teachers and principals are
fine people who struggle to do what is
right. Many of them genuinely want to
respond to the concerns of parents
regarding their children’s education.
Despite their best efforts, the hands of
teachers and principals are tied.
The many bureaucrats above a
local school determine the amount and
quality of resources that a school will
receive. These people control the money.
These people, therefore, have the power
in our educational system.
Consequently, teachers and
principals are forced to please the many
layers of bureaucrats above them first and
foremost. They may want to address the
concerns of parents, but they often
cannot. Or system ties their hands.
Money is power. short of
running for the school board or having
the right political connections, parents
have no meaningful power in our current
public school system. Vernon Robinson
is the one candidate for State
Superintendent who understands this.
Money is power and Vernon Robinson
would prefer you control what school
receives it. Only when schools are
directly dependent upon parents for
revenue will they have an incentive to
address the concerns of parents.
On November 5, vote for a
public education system that operates in
the public’s interest, not in the interest of
the bureaucrats who run it.
Vote for North Carolina’s first black
state superintendent. Vote Vernon Robinson,
Republican, for State Superintendent of Public
Instruction.
-Roxane Premont/Durham, NC
DEAR Editor:
I am a subscriber to Phoenix News and
a resident of the State of California. I would
appreciate if if you would print the following
article in your publication. 1 enjoy reading the
Phoenix...keep up the good work.
PROPOSITION 209 DRIVING BLACK
SCHOLARS OUT OF STATE SAYS CORE
Feeling unwanted, many of
California’s most promising black high school
graduates are opting for an out-of-state college
education, largely because of the “incendiary
rhetoric and mean-spiritedness” behind the
campaign to pass Proposition 209, the measure
that disposes of affirmative action guidelines,
rules and regulations in all state employment,
state contracts and state higher education
matters.
That is the opinion of Celes King, III,
president of the Congress of Racial Equality of
California, and a prominent Los Angeles
businessman and Republican. King opposes
Proposition 209, terming it as a “sinister ruse
whose only purpose is to foam the mouths of
California’s white citizens who are already
paranoid over the state’s rapidly growing
minority population.
Celes King, III questions the validity of
Proposition 209.
California’s finest colleges and
universities, she chose Spelman
because she felt that because of
Proposition 209, she would not be
wanted or appreciated here.”
King, who writes scores of
letters for students applying for
college each year, noticed the trend
this year. “A higher percentage of
these students are applying out-of-
state,” King mused. “Governor
Wilson and Ward Connerly
(chairman of the California Board
of Regents and the chairman of the
Prop. 209 campaign) are sending
out the wrong message to black
scholars of California.” King
added, “They are driving our best
and brightest away. If this is their
intent, I find that very
disheartening.”
King says a growing number of
California’s black-college-bound students
are seeking their higher education
elsewhere, even to the point where they
are willing to pay higher tuition “just to
get out of California where they feel they
are not wanted.
“A young scholar who graduated
from John Muir High School in Pasadena
last May sought CORE’S help in getting
admitted to Spelman College in Atlanta,”
King continued. “She told us that
although she had been accepted for
admission to Berkeley and several other of
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