Graduates of the Early College of Forsyth (ECF) received both their high school diploma and their AA
and/or AAS degree in two separate ceremonies on the same day in May 2015. For the second year in a row,
ECF has been ranked by Newsweek as one of the top US. high schools.
Newsweek puts Early
College of Forsyth in Top
1% of U.S. high schools
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Early College of
Forsyth (ECF), located on
the main campus of
Forsyth Tech in Winston
Salem, has been recog
nized as one of the top 500
high schools in
Newsweek's recently
released 2015 High School
Rankings.
Newsweek's study ana
lyzed more than 16,000
high schools around the
country, and ranked ECF at
No. 103, placing it in the
top 0.6 percent.
Of the 15 N.C. high
schools that made it into
Newsweek's top 500 list,
ECF held the second high
est ranking and was one of
five Early Colleges in the
state to be ranked in the top
500.
"Forsyth Tech, in col
laboration with the
Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County Schools, has
worked hard over the past
seven years ta make Early
College of Forsyth an out
standing educational option
for high school students
focused on obtaining a col
lege degree," said Fran
Cook, principal of ECF.
"The success of ECF is due
to the dedication of our tal
ented faculty and staff to
academic excellence and
their commitment to help
ing our students succeed."
The methodology used
in creating the 2015 listing
involved factors that pre
pare students for college,
including, but not limited
to, standardized test profi
ciency, graduation rates
and counselor-to-student
ratios.
ECF, which was
opened in 2008 and gradu
ated its first class in 2008,
was recognized for its 100
percent graduation rate,
82.9 percent student reten
tion rate, and the fact that
96.8 percent of graduates
further their college educa
tion at the end of the pro
gram.
For more information
about Early College of
Forsyth, contact Fran
Cook, ECF principal, at
336-757-3294.
Marchers say S.C.
Gov. Haley has more
to learn about race
BY MEG KINNARD
ASSOCIATED PRESS
CHARLESTON, S C.
?Taking the podium
before hundreds assembled
for Labor Day weekend
activities in downtown
Charleston, the Rev. Joseph
Darby said he has no doubt
that South Carolina Gov.
Nikki Haley was deeply
affected by the slayings of
nine black churchgoers ear
lier this summer.
But the second-term
Republican, the daughter of
Indian immigrants, may
have diversity in her back
ground but has a warped
sense of racial reality in
South Carolina and is mis
guided when she talks
about the state having
racial harmony, Darby told
a crowd of around 500
gathered in Marion Square.
"She still needs a little
bit of education," said
Darby - an official with
Charleston NAACP and
longtime friend of
Clementa Pinckney, the
senator and pastor slain
with eight others at
Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal
(AA1?.) Church in June _
to cheers and applause
from those gathered in the
hot morning sun. "She is
not the poster child for
racial harmony."
"Rather than condemn
ing " Black Lives Matter,'
you might ought to lighten
up and listen to what they
have to say," Darby admon
ished the governor. -
Darby referenced
Haley's comments recently
at the National Press Club
in Washington, D.C., where
South Carolina's first
minority governor said that
black lives do matter but
have been "disgracefully
jeopardized" by the Black
Lives Matter movement
that laid waste to Ferguson,
Missouri, and Baltimore.
Haley called the riots
there senseless, saying they
primarily harmed black
residents and the business
es that serve them.
But in South Carolina,
primarily in the wake of the
church slayings, the gover
nor said the state showed
*T
off how far race relations in
South Carolina have come.
"With the grace of the
aftermath of the Mother
Emanuel church massacre,
the world saw South
Carolina as we are," she
said. "We've been that way
for some time now - it's
just that a lot of people out
side of our state never
noticed."
At Saturday's events,
relatives of Walter Scott -
the black man shot to death
by a white police officer in
North Charleston this
spring - joined with the
families of those killed at
Mother Emanuel to march
through downtown
Charleston and discuss race
relations, labor issues and
healing.
Darby's sentiments
were echoed by the North
Carolina NAACP presi
dent, who also said Haley
only spoke out about
removing the Confederate
flag from the Statehouse
grounds after the deaths,
not before the tragedy.
"This narrative sug
gests that only black death
matters," the Rev. William
Barber II said. "She didn't
move the flag when living
people boycotted the flag
for 15 years with the
NAACP."
Haley, whose call to
remove the flag was ulti
mately successful this past
July, says the state has
made race-based progress
but still can do more. Her
office also says the gover
nor commends the AM?.
church for setting an exam
ple of compassion that led
the state through one of its
most difficult periods.
Haley press secretary
Chaney Adams said in a
statement provided to The
Associated Press: "The
governor has an enduring
respect and fondness for
the AMf. Church - she
knows South Carolina
would not have gotten
through this summer die
way we did if it wasn t for
the example of love and
compassion set by the
Church and its leadership.
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