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Knox Calls For Increased Ehniiaas Ota Children’s Issue “The children of North Carolina are 30 percent of our population, but 100 per cent of our future,” said Democratic gubernatorial candidate Eddie Knox. Knox, speaking in Ashe ville last week, said that life was “not what it should be” for some of the i.g million children in North Carolina under the age of 19. "I’m concerned that some of the handicaps our children face in their for mative years may become crippling disabilities when they become adults.” Knox said that 29 percent of the state’s ninth grade students drop out of school. These dropouts will each earn approximtely $4,700 a year less than a high school graduate. "I believe we should bring the current compe tency testing program down to the sixth or se venth grade level,” Knox said. “We need to identify children who cannot the competency tests early enough to provide the ne cessary remedial pro grams for them. We have to find ways to help these children stay in school if they are to become pro ductive members of our society.” Knox proposed increased efforts to ensure col Eddie Knox ...Gubernatorial candidate lection of child support payments and a consolida tion of government pro grams dealing with child abuse prevention. "The family of today is more frequently being headed by a single parent," he said. "Such a change not only bring emotional stress to children and parents, it often brings financial stress. We need to help these people overcome their difficulties.” Knox also pointed out that North Carolina has a half million children who need some type of day care, but the state has only 130,000 slots in licensed and registered day care faci lities. “We now Hive 50 percent of the women in this state working outside the home Gov. Hunt Launches Crusade For PnKKr : Editor’s Note: This ar ticle is written especially for non-dailies by Gover nor Jim Hunt. It concerns our plans for Improving the public schools. By Governor Jim Hunt Special To The Post Our goal in North Caro lina this year is nothing less than to launch a cru sade for the public s^n^ols and for the young people who are Our future. The Commission on Edu cation for - Economic Growth spent six months drawing up a blueprint fex changes in North Caro lina’s schools that will prepare our children for the economic and social changes they will face during their lifetimes. The theme of all these recommendations for change is raised expec tations - raised expecta tions for students, for teachers, for parents, for school leaders; indeed, raised expectations for Jim Hunt .Senatorial candidate what our schools can and should accomplish. We must make our pu blic schools places of ex cellence, where standards are high and where per formance is measured against those high stan dards. The sc bools must be ac countable to the taxpayers and must do the Job the citizens of our state expect them to do. In just two months, the North Carolina General Assembly will convene in Raleigh for its budget session. Education should be the first and primary order of business. I will ask the legislature to act on recommendations from the Commission re port that would: -Raise teacher pay and commit North Carolina to a career growth program for teachers. - -Reduce class size. -Raise pay for school administrators and es tablish career-growth op portunities and. manage ment training programs for them. —Increase luous to buy new textbooks, laborato ries and vocational edu cation equipment. For the next two months, the challenge before the Commission, friends of education and me as Governor is to talk to people all over this state about this blueprint for change, mobilize public support for It and win its passage in tne Legislative Building. Throughout the rest of this year, I win be work ing with the State Board of Education, with the De partment of Public Instruc tion, with local school boards and county com missioners and with edu cators and citizens across the state h) cany out other recommendations in the Commission reoort: -Strengthen the curricu lum to insure that students master the competencies they will need in life. -Promote students only when they have mastered those skills and provide remediation for those who have not. -Reduce interruptions and distractions in the classroom. -See that we are teach ing students values such as PPflnnnetMIUtr Kama.*.. Martin Supports Defzl-itednction Package Washington - Having voted in support of a tax package that closes $50 billion worth of ta» loop hides, Congressman Jim Martin (R-NC) announced that he would support “fiscally responsible” le gislation to cut federal spending by more pupi J}0£, billion over the next three years. In announcing his sup port of further budget cutting measures, Martin challenged Congress to “Go to the medicine ca binet and take a big dose of political courage.” He called upon Congress to enact, before its summer recess, spending cuts of at least $100 billion. “The deficit problems calls for changes in the politka-as-usual approach. In an election year, Con gress usually shows the courage of an ostrich, but we’ve kept our heads in the Jim Martin . ....U.S. Congressman sand long enough.” Martin, a senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, called upon Congress to “take a closer look at the recom mendations of the Grace Commission as well as other deficit-reduction measures. "Time is run ning out ; the solutions are not easy. But under no circumstances must we abandon tbe fight simply because it’s an election year.” The Republican Con gressman, in voting in sup et of the tax bill, noted t it contained the Mar . tin. amendment he jof fered in committee to re duce the federal cigarette tax from 16 cents to 12 cents. "It’s a simple mat ter of fairness and equity that the tobacco industry and our farmer* not be given the entire burden of the federal deficit pro blem. North Carolina’s to bacco workers and fanners have shown their willing, ness to share in the neces sary sacrifices, so I think today’s vote is a victory for the people of our state.” Martin added that "po litical courage does not necessarily mean major slashes in our defense im provement program. Cer tainly we must cut costs and encourage competition in defense contracting, but to me political courage does not mean cuttingvital defease programs just be cause it is-.the politically . popular thing to do.”-' “We’ve got toi look be- - yond a ‘down payment’ on the deficit. To ensure a continued enocomy re covery, Congress has to undo the spending excesses of the past.’’ Martin concluded that “Congressmen made no friends when they enacted the 'draft on the eve of World War II, but without it, the United States might well have lost the War. Congress has to show that sort of strength again to ensure a long economic recovery, and at the same time provide for the na tional defense.” Fakdoth To Reduce Metical Crete For EUeriv Special Te The Post ... North Carolina candidate for Governor Lauch Pair cloth said today be would work with the General As sembly to reduce medicai costs for the elderly poor. Faircloth also rnlimnrl his position paper on the elderly which ntrfssml supporting the elderly’s ef forts to stay in their homes ^ and out of institutions Because of a complex set of federal regulations, thousands of the elderly must pay a large deduc tible on their medical bills. Because they are unable to pay the deductible, many elderly are leaving their own homes and en tering nursing homes and other institutions, which ends up costing taxpayers more, according to Pair cloth. There are too many cases where needy senior citizens have had to choose between psyiig doctor bills and eating,’’ Pair-1 cloth said. The costs to the elderly are tied to the paymenta made under Aid to Fami lies with Dependent Child ren (AFDC). The General Assembly has been reluc tant to increase that pay ment very often, which means help for the elderly also hasn't gone up. Faireloth said he would consider supporting an in creaae in the AFDC pay menta, which will mean being able to help more of the elderly. "It’s a federal bureau cratic CATCH 22 that’s unfortunately caught the elderly poor in the mid dle,” he said —“I’m going to work with the Congressional deljfir tion to get the federal re quirements changed, but in the meantime, the General Assembly must act to re lieve the unnecessary suf fering of the elderly,” he said. Faircloth’s program »!■« included more financial support for adult day care services and in-home health services for the el derly. He called for removing the compulsory retirement laws,'which he said was legalized age discrimina tion. And, he said the state should consider giving a tax credit to children pro viding financial support to thair parents, who do not live in the children’s homes. Fahdoth said he would d*e oppose higher taxes, which hit those on fixed incomes the hardest. Palmer & Son 2901 Beatties Ford Special Computer Balancing r ■ 1 iTr: * Reg. »5 * Introduction Price • •, l . jJLt „ «- ■*' •* 'j>y •■ 5 By Appointment Only 730 - 630 393-8809 Rev. Dr. James E. Palmer Owner and that's 12 percent high er then the national aver age,” he said. "These working parents heed qua lity day care sendees at a price they can afford.” - Knox called for a com bined effort from public and private resources to address this need. He said that state and local agen das, day care providers and businesses should be able to develop mutually beneficial solutions to the day care shortage. “Education is the taproot to everything,” Knox said. ‘ Education can ensure better career opportunities for our young people, re duce prison population? loyalty and patriotism. -Serve the special needs, of students who are gifted and talented, as well as those who are handicapped or who live in rural areas. Our schools have achieved tremendous pro gress in the past few years: -Students scaring above national test levels for the first time. -A Primary Reading Program. —A rigorous testing program and a minimum competency teat required for high school graduation. -A reduction in the dropout rate. -The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. But our progress in yean past will not help us meet the tide, of economic and technological change that is coming. It is critically important that we take bold action thfa> year. By the year 2000, North Carolina’s population will grow by about ooe million people. We must create 900,000 new Jobs. Many of those Jobs will be in new industries and new technologies. Many will be in service indus tries. We will face stiff competition for Jobs from other states and from abroad. We must prepare North C^ooUna's young people for that changing, competitive world. That is what our crusade for education this year is about and eliminate widespread welfare. 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