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< With Winston-Salem State
University's help, a selected
number of local middle and high
School students will get a head
tart bn college preparation next
:^ear.
> WSSU has received a $510,000
'!grant from the Kenan Founda::tion
to implement a five-year pro!^gram
aimed at helping students
identify and work on their defi;
xiencies before they get to col'lege.
: The program is called
-^'Kenan's Pre-College Program
^for Improving Standards and
Preparation for College for MidZ-clle
Grade and .Secondary
^Students."
"Many of the students who
graduate from high school come
:*o universities and have to be
placed in remedial courses such
4U math and English," said Dr.
Melvin F. Gadson, director of the
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who once patrolled the
'halls have been replaced with six
^plainclothes security guards who
;carry no weapons but have arrest
'.powers, Winegar said. Gone are
4he metal detectors and
demonstrators, who had made
the school a rallying point in the
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had 47 percent black par:
ticipants. And Food Stamps, cut
I by 13.8 percent, had 37 percent
I black recipients.
- These cuts in human needs prot
grams undermined the economic
Z foundations of hundreds of
'thousands of black households.
Conversely, areas of massive
-government spending over the
; past six years have helped to hike
~*)>lack joblessness.
>: The shift in federal spending
^priorities from human services to
I military hardware has lowered
>job opportunities for blacks,
:*Hispanics and other people of 1
>;color, because these populations
;are not represented in those firms
;!which receive military contracts.
If we use 1980 employment
; statistics, a shift in one million
'Jobs from educational institutions,
social services and health
services to firms which are
-military-related would create a
:-net loss of more than 60,000 jobs
>for black women and men.
t The very real, and not
*!hvoothetical. shift in such
' government expenditure has had
Sthe net impact of disrupting
hthousands of black families' conEditions.
< Some of the talk about the
:4>lack family's crisis is indeed ac;;
curate. Black-on-black crime,
?^spouse ?abuse?and ?other?
^manifestations of anti-social
^behavior are quite real.
> But at the level of national
Cjpublic policy, there is an attempt
~rto attribute all of the black community's
problems to internal
^ flaws - that black woman are
^promiscuous, that black teenpagers
are all criminally inclined,
*:that black men are lazy or nonex|
istent husbands, etc. Such an ef>
fort, which has recently been advanced
by conservative
^Democrats as well as Reaganites,
>must be denounced for what it is:
tan explicitly racist attempt to
?shift the burden of responsibility
?to the backs of black people for
Tether effects of racism.
>: If we had full employment,
^universal health care, decent and
jtfree public housing, most of the
black family's problems would
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?which black people find
;?themselves.
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-* Dr. Manning Marable it pro
feasor of political science and
* sociology at Purdua University
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ty/county
education division at WSSU.
"The intent of this proposal is
to improve deficiencies of
students before they enter college,*'
said Gadson, who is also
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curecior 01 tne program.
WSSU Chancellor Clcon F.
Thompson Jr. said he considers
the program to be highly significant.
"Although the program will
only reach a small number of
students in its initial years, it's
still a beginning," he said.
Thompson said the Kenan
Foundation is t^be praised for
helping to address the problem.
"Hopefully, we will be able to
convince other funding agencies
to join us in the development of
this concept," he said.
The need for the program is
widespread, says the proposal
that details the program.
All students who enter one of
the 16 public universities in North
Carolina in the fall of 1988 will
have had to meet a new set of
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fight against desegregation.
Several students interviewed
said they have a mixture of
friends who may reflect the
school's racial balance, but skin
color is not a concern.
"I have friends of all kinds,"
said Jimmy Nunez of the Roxbury
section, a 17-year-old
Hispanic youth entering his
senior year. "I don't really think
about it. If you want to be my
friend, you be my friend."
"In the field, we're all one
team," said senior Jose Lobo of
the city's Dorchester section as he
greeted old teammates from the
school's football team. "You
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"Some kids are really prejudiced,
but you have that anywhere,"
said Bob Janvo, a special education
teacher, who added that
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says.
"In order to approve the com
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students, it is necessary to intervene
in their educational program
as early as grade level eight,
if not earlier," the proposal says.
The program is not targeted
specifically toward blacks, Gadsen
said.
"And we're not trying to select
students who score in the *90th
percentile of the California
Achievement Test, or students
who score on the lower echelon,
either," he said, "but students
who score average ' and
demonstrate potential and may
need help and tutoring."
Gadson said that in developing
the program, he worked closely
with Dr. Zane E. Eargle,
superintendent of the city/county
school system; Dr. Barbara K.
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most students get along well.
"They're not suburban kids
whose parents are making
$45,000~to $60,000 a year. They
need helpr" he said.
Although the school receives
students from three housing projects
with the worst crime rates in
the city, the problems that spill
over into school tend to be intra
racial, said Winegar.
Most of the parents who opposed
the busing have moved
their children to private or
parochial schools, said Ian Forman,
a school department
spokesman, who reported no
racial incidents among any of the
city's 58,756 students in 120
schools during the opening days
of classes last week.
"It's been remarkably free of
problems ?t all levels. It had been
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"We have their full support
and approval as well as a letter of
endorsement," Gadson said.*
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cooperative."
The $510,000 that the program
received will be spread out over
the five-year period, Gadson
said. The money will be used for
tutorial services, staff development,
summer enrichment programs
and year-round educational
pr6grams.
. Gadson said that hiring of the
staff, identifying the target group
students and selections of committees
will take place between
now and Dec. 31.
Thi? imfriirtinnsil part nf thg
program p scheduled to begin
next year.
A total of 60 students from
eiohth. ninth anH 1 ftth oroH? will
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last year and the year before," he
said:
Under the desegregation plan,
the school department buses
28,000 studentr to school and
7,000 others ride public transportation,
Forman said. A task force
appointed by School Superintendent
Laval S. Wilson, the
351-year-old system's first black
superintendent, is reviewing the
student assignment plan, but no
changes are expected before the
next school year, forman said.
Under Garrity's final orders in
the case, changes may be made in
the plan if all parties in the
desegregation case agree. And
Winegar said he and others will
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"I am the last remaining remnant
of Judge Garrity," Winegar
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teachers. There will be a
superintendent-appointed team
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The students in the experimental
group of the program will
come from the following schools:
Hill and Northwest middle
schools and North Forsyth and
Parkland high schools.
A control group of students
will be selected from Philo and
Mineral Spring middle schools
and Carver and Glenn high
schools.
"Once the students are identified
and the teachers are
selected to participate, we'll take
those students and try to place
them with the very best math and
English teachers," (Jadson said.
"We'll put them in the regular
classes with those teachers," he
said. "At the end of the school
day, the superintendent has
agreed to let the teachers work
witn those students until it's time
for the teachers to leave."
These teachers will identify the
deficiencies the students have, he
said.
"We will also set up additional
tutorial hours after school or on
the weekends if the student so
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