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New Era Of Growth, Innovation And
Acountabilty In Public Charter Schools
By Darrell Allison
Darrell Allison, President
Parents for Educational Freedom in North Carolina
North Carolina has a deep commitment to
public education.
Our state educates 1.5 million children
in approximately 2,500 traditional public
schools in all 100 counties.
Are We Blind or Are
We invisible?
By Gerald Greene
Gerald Green
The fact'that our African American ances
tors were enslaved seemed egregious
enough; unfortunately this new aged
era of mental slavery seems to be just as
hideous. We are taunted daily by innumer-
ous illustrations of bias acts, such as racial
discrimination, police brutality, judicial
inequality and political exclusion to high
light a few. However now we actually have
a little more control and it's called a vote.
Our once seemingly insignificant presence
in the political arena has now proven to be
quite significant. The black vote has made
its mark in mainstream America and contin
ues to boast its influence in the outcome of
elections. In past elections we were invis
ible, republicans have never needed the
minority vote and we were blind because
we couldn't see the potential of our vote
and democrats didn't realize the trump
card they possessed in utilizing the minor
ity vote. Now the cat is out of the bag, "the
minority vote sways elections". The
As a product of North Carolina public
schools with a daughter in the third grade
who attends public school, I'm proud of the
long-standing tradition they have and will
continue to have in serving the majority of
our children,
I am equally proud that North Carolina,
which has been the envy of other states
because of our willingness to modernize
our educational delivery system, has fully
embraced public charter schools as an addi
tional option for our children.
Since state leaders lifted the cap in 2011 on
the number of public charter schools, we
now have 148 public charter schools oper
ating in North Carolina that serve 75,000
students in 57 counties. Another 13 public
charter schools are in the pipeline to open
their doors next year, pushing the total to
160.
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“However now we actually have a
little more control and it’s
called a vote. ”
Republican Party learned from their mis
takes of alienating minority voters and
realized that they wouldn't be successful
in gaining a lot of their support in the near
future, so the plan was voter suppression
laws. These laws.supported their agenda
of picking up momentum in the midterm
elections and setting the stage for the
2016 presidential election. The GOP's
strategy was that they needed to limit
the minority vote and they were quite
successful with it, there were fewer early
voting sites and the early voting period
was shortened. This coupled with the
unsolicited help from democrats proved
to be a recipe for success.The Democratic
Party apparently thought that they would
inherit the minority vote and made mini
mal efforts to identify with them, more
specifically the young minority voters.
North Carolina had the most expensive
senatorial race in history, with both par
ties spending over $100 million collec
tively in efforts to get their candidate
elected. Very little was done to reach the
young and minority voters. Statistics show
that these demographics of voters were
highly under represented in the voter
turnouts: this was a very costly mistake by
the democrats. As we prepare for the 2016
elections, we cannot turn a blind eye and
not see the power of the minority vote,
nor can we continue to allow the GOP to
treat us as if we are invisible. Despite any
and all obstacles your vote is the single
most way to rectify the notion that "we
are blind or invisible".
Is ADHD A Real Disease?
By Derrick Lane
* J
Clarence B. Jones
Reflections On The
2014 Mid-Term
Elections
By Clarence B. Jones
I wish we could select winning lottery
numbers as accurately as we anticipated the
Republican sweep in the midterm elections.
The strategic objective of the Republican
Party was to make the elections a national
referendum on the policies and leadership
of President Obama.
Rather than stand and fight on these
issues, the Democratic National Committee
decided to run away and decouple their
reelection campaign from the very visible,
24/7 presence of President Obama.This was
their "playbook" for holding or increasing
Democratic Party seats in the House and
Senate. How did that work out?
The not-so-subtle abandonment of President
Obama fractured, confused and potentially
alienated important core constituencies of his
election base. Why didn't more Democratic
candidates for Congress and the governorships
of various states acknowledge the initial feilures
ofthe roll-out of the AffordableCare Act butthen
defend the historic change it accomplished in
providing health care for an unprecedented
number of previously uninsured persons?
Why didn't Democratic candidates preempt
the discussion about some of the failures
and improper care for veterans by indicating
that the president moved decisively to
address this issue? Why didn't they point
to his administration being proactive in
protecting our country from Ebola?
Yes, we have heard and read complaints
about President Obama's "indecisive
leadership" in foreign policy. But much of
our problem and dilemma in the Middle East
today is a consequence and by product of the
"decisive" preemptive military "leadership" of
former President George W. Bush. Almost
a trillion dollars later, we are still dealing
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One doctor questions if ADHD is a real dis
order or overdiagnosed.
Dr. Leon Eisenberg, who passed away at the
age of 87 in 2009, was a prominent figure in
the field of child psychiatry who during the
1950s and '60s conducted medical studies
of children with developmental problems,
including some of the first findings of autism
and attention deficit disorder.
Often described as the"inventor"or"father"
of attention deficit disorder (ADD) and/or
attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder
(ADHD) Dr. Eisenberg contributed a great
deal to the body of knowledge on childhood
psychiatry.
But the scientific father of ADHD has
followed the explosion of prescriptions
with growing horror. The claim that Dr.
Eisenberg said that "ADHD is a fictitious
disease" is reproduced on countless web
sites as something he said "before his
death in his last interview," which would
place the date of his utterance around
February 2009. When documentation
for the putative quote is provided, it ref
erences an article (often described as a
"cover story") published in the German
weekly Der Spiegel on 2 February 2012,
In the literal translation ofthe statement
in context, some native German speakers
have reported that Dr. Eisenberg wasn't
[continued on page 31
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