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Patients rally outside Novant office VMn Uvt (Mt) mmka winiorton to ~h*nk tor Owtof a domoimtmttmo In mpport of Or. IMph Wall who roo*0no4 from Movmnt HoaMt Int. lost month. ? At right k WaW$ tovwhior, Dtomo WmU. By BRIDGET EVARTS The Chronicle Suff Wnier While some of Dr. Ralph Wall's for mer patients demonstrated Tuesday out side of the satellite office of Novant Health Inc., the health care company maintained the matter was simply a per sonnel issue. About a dozen of Wall's supporter, former patients, employees ? even family members ? demonstrated for 11 hours outside the new Forsyth Medical Arts Building at 2135 New Walkertown Rd. But not all protesters were protesting the same thing. Some felt that Wall, who resigned from his contract with Novant a month ago, had been forced out of his practice. One of Wall's two medical office assistants, whom Novant fired when Wall resigned, protested that her dismissal was unfair, while the husband of the second medical assistant fingered physician assis tant Tommy Williams as the villain in the script. And at least one demonstrator praised Novant and Wall, but felt both parties dropped the ball when it came to patient consideration. Wall, who practiced with East Forsyth Medical Associates on Cleveland Avenue, signed a five-year contract with the health care corporation in September 1995. In June, a letter was sent to Wall's patients notifying them that the practice was mov ing to the new Novant satellite. Wall was scheduled to receive patients at the Forsyth Medical Arts Building July 14. Novant officials said that Wall breached the contract when he handed in See Patnhts on AM p^lpfeii Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point vol. xxm n^4* i ?The Chronici ~ j ^"room01 002 The Choice for African-American News and Information * to be taken a WINSTON SALEM NC 27101-2755 . State to release ABC results By BRIDGET EVARTS Yhe Chuonicle Staff Writer The state Board of Education will release results today from the first phase of the school accountability initiative. Under the model, named The ABCs of Public Education, schools are no longer compared to other dis tricts or a statewide average. Instead, a school must prove that its standards have risen, measured against its perfor mance of the previous year. Students must show proficiency in the basics of reading, writing and mathematics, and schools must prove growth in their test scores. Schools that have exceeded the state-man dhted performance goal by at least 10 percent will be judged exemplary. Those that have achieved their performance goal will be judged as meeting expectations, and schools that haven't met their goal but have shown 50 percent or more of the students testing at their level or above will be rated pro ficient. Those schools that have not met their goals or scored proficient will be classed low-performing. Grades K-8 participated in the first phase of the ABC plan. The state board approved the high school model in March for the 1997-98 school year. These are grades that count. If a school does not mea sure up to the ABC model, the principal could be fired and ir state intervention team called in. On the other hand, the principals, teachers and teachers' assistants in schools that prove themselves exemplary will receive bonuses of up to $1,000. -. Drastic measures such as the former will be taken only in the very lowest-performing schools, said state officials. When Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools released preliminary test scores last month, three elementary schools ranked.as low performing schools: Forest Park, Hall Woodward and Mineral Springs. These schools were identi fied in 1995-96 statistics as not meeting proficiency levels or the state's growth expectation. One of the six elementary and middle schools whose early test scores indicated trouble, Bolton Elementary, now ranks exemplary. Two other schools that also had low scores last year indicate that they have improved: LEAP Academy at Petree proved exemplary, and Diggs See ABCs Off AS J Roundtable won't be a Trojan Horse,' says Griggs Khalld Orlggt By BRIDGET EVARTS The Chronicle Staff Writer If revived, the Black Leadership Roundtable will not pander to party alliances, promised Khalid Griggs, co-convener of the group's July 31 meeting. "This is not an attempt ... to be some kind of Trojan Horse," said Griggs, imam of the Community Mosque of Winston-Salem, "by which people with political agendas can fit into this Trojan Horse." ? v ? ? Some of the 70 or so peo ple gathered at the Sarah Austin Head Start Center on East End Boulevard had participated in the original Black Leadership Roundtable. Organized in the early 1980s, the first Black Leadership Roundtable provided voter education information for the black community. The group also served as a think tank, interpreting the social issues affecting African Americans. Politics united the group, and politics ultimate ly split the first Roundtable. Disagreement over which candidate to support in the 1984 guberna torial race led to the group's demise. The steering committee of the new Roundtable has taken careful steps to avoid future disharmo ny. That's why Griggs was charged with crafting operational principles to guide the new organiza tion. See leadership on AS Nation's black librarians meet in Winston: Culture keepers to make global connections SyMa Sprlnklo-Hamlln, tho deputy director of the forsyth Coujfty Public Library It the protldont of BCALA. By FELBCIA P. MCMILLAN Special to The Chkonicle Gertiana Williams, from New Orleans, who served as the chairperson of the Third National Conference of African American Librarians, was pleased to announce that although this was the first time the conference was held in Winston-Salem, the event here far exceeded expectations in attendance, participation of authors, workshops, and vendors. ? According to Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin, president of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA), more than 1,000 people attended from around the country. "In this conference we tried to expand on the linkages to our colleges in other parts of the African Diaspora," Williams said. "We promote diversity in libraries and productivity." According to Will-iams, it is crucial that librari ans begin to operate in "unpredictable ways" in order to serve a diverse population. As informa tional professionals, she said, librarians should realize the multiple ways to find solutions to reaching people, because the library should be more than just a deposi tory. "We need to reach out in our communities that are often under-served," Williams said. She said that in less affluent areas, See BCALA o.\ A6 WomenWork! grads ready for work Tkt graduofH woro all iiiiMm as tkty stood on too stops of too WRC following too predwafton. Tho ffov. Loo Coyo Mock, (front right) was too fcoywoto spoafcor. By FELECIA P. MCMILLAN Special to The Chronicle "We can't afford to get tired. It does no good for the doors of opportunity to open for us if we are not prepared to go in. If they need computer-trained women, we need to be prepared," said the Rev. Lee Faye Mack, the keynote speaker for the graduates of the Women Work! program sponsored by the Women's Resource Center (WRC) of Greensboro. The graduation was held at the WRC on Sunday, Aug. 3. These graduates just completed a 16-week commitment of classes in computer training, typing tutorial, self-esteem and other skills that are useful in the workplace. This comprehensive, three month program is designed to assist with job training and educational skills necessary for attaining self sufficiency through gainful employ ment. Marian Franklin, executive director and one of the founders of the WRC, said, "We recognize that women have the answers within See WRC on A3
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