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Photo by Kevin Walker Darrell and Cora Sydnor listen to Dennis Walker, principal of the Winston Salem Preparatory Academy, speak about his school's magnet program. Also pictured is one of the Sydnor 's children, Tierra. Magnets from page A T system's first hign school mag net programs These days, Piggott said, parents have so many educational options that a brand-new school alone will not automatically attract students 4 Magnet programs offer the standard course of study with a strong infusion of a specialized program in such areas as the arts, leadership or technology The school system opened its first magnet program in the 1970s at Moore Elementary In recent years, federal grants have created several more. Superintendent Don Martin said the aim of many of the magnet programs opened with federal dollars is to bring racial balance to schools that lost it after the school system did away with cross-town busing in the late 1990s. Martin is confident that over time, magnet programs will achieve that aim. He points to Paisley Middle as an example. The school - which offers the academically challenging International Baccalaureate program - had a student population that was more than 90 percent African American- soon after the system implemented its neighborhood schools concept. With the cre ation of its magnet program, Paisley's student body slowly became more racially diverse. Today, about 50 percent of the school's students are white, Martin said. Mineral Springs Middle is hoping that its newly-imple mented magnet program will have similar results. The school offers an innovative arts and leadership program that focuses on the strengths of each individ ual student. Mineral Springs Middle's student population is over whelmingly black and Hispanic. The school also has space to accommodate dozens of addi tional students. Mineral Springs Middle became a magnet school as a result of a $7. 1 million fed eral grant the system received last year. Mineral Springs principal Urban League from page Al him apart He was 'approved unanimously by the board pf directors Grandberry has directed community relations strategics for various international firms and Fortune 100 companies, such as HchoStar, AT&T, and Lockheed Martin. He's worked for former White House adviser Robert J. Brown. He's also con ducted workshops on organisa tional development for the National Urban Ixague CEO's affiliate orientation and the Whitney M. Young Leadership Development conferences Before accepting the Urban League position, he was director of America's Families United in Washington, D.C., where his responsibilities included voter education, strategic planning and membership development initiatives. Grandberry has big shoes to fill. Over the last 16 years Wylie transformed the agency by having it tackle issues facing families in a "holistic" manner The local Urban League devel oped programs for all segments of the population from young adults to seniors. The I 'rban League has been involved in helping people train for and find jobs. This year the organization hosted its first job fair for seniors. The Urban league along with other agen cies opened a discount pharma cy for seniors this year Grandberry will begin his official first day at the Urban League on Jan. 17. Randy lulton lobbied hard lor bis school at Sunday's fair. He believes ir hfc can gel students in the door of his school, they will be hooked by the school's mag net program and caring, capable faculty and staff. "We think that the ones who do attend, will stay with us," he said. Fulton also hopes a facelift for his 50-year-old school will help attract students. ITie third floor of Mineral Springs Middle is currently being renovated. The school 's other floors will be done in the months to come. AU 12 of the system 's magnet programs will be accepting applications until Jan. 31 at 4:30 p.m. Meeting the deadline is the best wayfbtJparents to get their children into a magnet program. Applications will be accepted after Jan. 31 only if the program has space avail able. For information on all the magnet programs, log onto www.wsfrsmagnets.net < or call ?727-2519. Most black board members say they will seek another term in '06 BY SANDRA ISLEY THE CHRONICLE Ilirce of the four African Americans who sit on the Winston-Salem Forsyth (bounty Board of liducation and the Forsyth County Board of < ommissioners say they defi mtely plan to seek re-election this year County Commissioners Walter Marshall and Beaufort Bailey say that as the only two black members of the seven member board, they want to continue to ensure that the voic es of minorities arc heard on the board. "I wish more blacks woujd show up at the county commis sioner meetings. A lot of times, as blacks, we w ait for something to happen, then we react," said Bailey, who will be seeking a second term But Marshall's and Bailey's presence on the board did not stop their fellow members from drastically cutting the county subsidy tor the Downtown Health Plaza, a clinic run by Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center that provides essential health services at either low or no cost to patients. The clinic was forced to cut some of its services as a result. Marshall said the county was put into a bind becausc the state needs to do more to provide for low-income patients. "The state passes a lot of issues down to the county," Marshall said. "Right now, the local county is having to fund things that should be the respon sibility of the state government, rnnw. Victor Johnson, right, and Walter Marshall disagree over a proposed school bond after a public forum last year at Carver High School. which is really overtaxing the local economy." Marshall and Bailey sense a battle this year oyer a proposed school bond. The school system wants commissioners to OK Brown tens 01 minions in bonds to pay for new schools and renovations to exist ing schools. Bailey said he may support some bond money, but not the nearly $50 mil lion the school sys tem may seek. Bailey believes that the majority of school funding is being allocated (o schools in the suburbs and that inner-city schools are being neglected. Marshall feels the same way. Like Marshall and Bailey, Victor Johnson and Geneva Brown are the only two African American members of thi city county School Board. Johnson says he will definitely seek another term. Brown is still iffy. She said she will make a deci sion about her future on the board before the filing window for candidates closes on Ieb. 28. Johnson, who fought for years for the con struction of the new multimillion Atkins Academic and Technology High School, said he wants to be around to ensure that other new schools open and that existing schools get makeovers. Johnson said a school bond is needed to renovate 24 schools and pay for the construction of 13 new ones. I~hc school system cannot han dle the current surge in students with its existing schools, he said. "Our enrollment has gone from 39,000 to almost 48,000. Every time you get 1,000 new students that come into your school system, there's a possi bility that you need another school," said Johnson. Brown's greatest concern continues* to be the gap between majority achievement and minority achievement "We need to have our kids, minority kids, close to where everybody else is scoring on tests and everything else," Brow n said. Johnson claims to have seen a shirt Tor the better in test scores for minority students He cites Kimberlcy Hark Hlemenlary School as an exam pie of scholastic achievement, where 90 percent of the student population passed the end-of grade test. Brown says the quality of education still can be enhanced It is one of the things she plans to work on if she seeks another term. Brown says more money is not always the answer to fixing the achievement gap. As a for mer principal of trailbla/ing Moore Elementary School, Brown has seen inno Bailey vative teaching meth ods do the trick. "Money doesn't answer all the ques tions. You got money, you got to know how to use it and what to use it for," Brown said. "It all comes down to teaching. In education, the bottom line is teaching and how it's done." Filing for the 2006 election will begin on Feb. 13. This year's primary will be .May 2. The general election will be on Nov. 7. 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