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Falling behind
in the polls
Reynolds
prevails
THE CHRONICLE
Volume43,Number51 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, September 1, 2016
City mourns
the death of I
WS/FCS teacher
Family and
friends reflect on
the life of
Krishawn Noble
during vigils
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
The community was
shaken tQ the core last
week when news surfaced
that Krishawn Noble, a
middle school teacher with
the Winston-Salem/Forsyth
County School District,
was found dead in
Kernersville Lake follow- hounds. After conducting a
ing a search conducted by second search Friday
family and friends. moming, the Sheriff's
According to
reports, Noble,
23, rented ^pad
dle boat around
11:00 a.m. on
Thursday, Aug.
25. Two hours
later his boat
washed ashore
with his wallet
and other per
sonal belongings
inside. At that time the
Forsyth County Sheriff's
Department conducted a
search using underwater
divers, sonar, and blood
Department called
off their search at 6
p.m. Less than
30 minutes later,
during a search con
ducted by more
than 50 family
members and
friends. Noble's
lifeless body was
found floating in
the lake.
Noble
Those who knew him
well said Noble was the
type of person who would
give you his shirt off his
back. During a vigil held
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An alumna from Winston-Salem State University signs a photo of Krishawn
Noble during a vigil held on campus on Sunday, Aug. 28. Following a two-day
search of Kernersville Lake, Noble's body was found on Friday, Aug. 26.
by family and friends,
Jonathan McDaniel, a close
friend, said Noble was
always a voice of comfort
for him and many others.
1 .
"He was always calm,
cool, and collected. If
something was to go
wrong, he was always the
one saying everything is
i
going to be okay," contin
ued McDaniel. "If you
were his friend, he consid
ered you his brother and
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Teacher Ebony Jason answers a student's question in her math class at Carver High School on the first day
of school on Monday, A ug. 29.
Carver hopes for comeback
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
As students returned to Carver
High School on Monday, Aug. 29, the
school is readying itself for an aca
demic comeback.
Winston-Salem/Forsyth County
Schools started its school year on
Monday. While every school has
challenges, none are more apparent
than in the school system's 11 priority
schools, which include Carver.
Priority schools are among the state's
lowest performing Title 1 schools,
which have high percentages of low
income students. According to state
academic standards, Carver's stu
dents are at 9 percent proficiency as
of last school year. Carver opened in
1936 to serve African-American stu
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dents during segregation and still has
a largely black student body.
Principal Travis Taylor said
Carver is putting measures in place to
improve student performance to
make sure that it won't face reorgani
zation like Cook Elementary School
did.
"We're in our 80th year of being
open at Carver High School, we don't
want the school to go down on our
watch," said Taylor.
He said that starting this school
year, there are weekly assessments to
track the progress of students in the
state-tested courses of Math I,
Biology and English II. There are
also new teacher assistants for each of
those classes who will work with
struggling students individually. The
school has tutoring Tuesday through
Friday and on Saturdays, which uti
lizes both school staff and communi
ty volunteers. The school has also
hired a dean of students to develop
programs to help with discipline
issues and keep students with behav
ior problems in the classroom.
Another thing Carver is currently
working on is adding an Information
Technology Academy, which is
expected to start next school year.
Carver already has a Hospitality and
Tourism Academy, with classes that
prepare students to pursue careers in
that field.
He said the school system, Carver
alumni and the community have been
See Comeback on A4
Democrats
speak out
against
Trump-Pence
BY TEVIN STTNSON
THE CHRONICLE
On Tuesday morning just hours before Republican
vice presidential candidate Mike Pence was scheduled to
speak at the Millennium Center, City Council Members
Dan Besse and D.D. Adams held a press conference to,
discuss why the Donald Trump-Pence ticket is the wrong
choice for North Carolina.
During the press conference held inside the Forsyth
County Democratic Party Headquarters located on Burke
Street, the representatives for the southwest and north
wards discussed why Hillary Clinton's plan for America
is stronger than Trump's.
As he stood in front a bright blue wall covered with
signs that read "Hillary," Besse said Trump's path to the
nomination was paved by
attacks on Muslims and
Latinos. He mentioned
Trump's rise to political
notoriety was fueled by spu
rious claims that our first
African-American president
was not bom in America.
Besse also noted Pence, who currently serves as the
Governor of Indiana, shares Trump's tendency to go back
and forth with his public announcements.
Last December before he was selected as Trump's
running mate, Pence said it was offensive for Trump to
discuss excluding Muslims from our shores, but now he
constantly brags about his attempt to block Syrian
refugees from coming into his state.
"These are background checked families who are try
ing to flee war and terror," he continued. "Governor
Pence's efforts to stop them at his state line is an offensive
effort that a federal court has already blocked as an
unconstitutional act of discrimination."
Besse also discussed the Trump-Pence economic plat
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VP candidate Mike Pence stumps for Trump in W-S
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
Republican vice presi
dential candidate Mike
Pence visited Winston
Salem again on Tuesday,
Aug. 30, speaking to follow
ers at the Millennium
Center.
Pence, a former UJS. rep
resentative and current
Indiana governor, spoke pre
viously in the Twin City at a
much bigger rally with his
running mate, Donald
Trump, at the Winston
Salem Fairgrounds Annex in
July. Polls in North Carolina
show the race between
Trump and Democratic pres
idential candidate Hillary
Clinton to be neck and neck.
Trump, Pence and their cam
paign surrogates have been
making repeated trips to the
Tar Heel state
Pence's rally was a
smaller one, filling much of
the Millennium ballroom,
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Vice Presidential
Candidate Mike
Pence speaks to
attendees at the
Millennium
Center on
Tuesday, Aug. 30.
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