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Wednesday, October 11,1995
School Board Candidate Profiles ELEBRIiy
Chapel Hill and Carrboro will elect five new members to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education on Nov. 7.
Today, The Daily Tar Heel profiles three more of the 13 candidates seeking to improve the school system.
■ Board Needs to Control Spending
With 17 years of business experience,
Kevin Cook said he thought he could help
die school board be more cost conscious
and fair to all the schools in the system.
“We need to build even more schools,
but we haven’t paid for the ones we’re
building,” Cook said. “We need to show
the towns that we can spend the money
correctly. Needs for new schools were de
fined back in 1990, and it has taken longer
than needed to fund, as well as build the
new schools.”
Besides problems with funding for
schools, Cook also said he saw a problem
with the way the school board neglected to
focus attention on issues important to a
wide range of people. He said he believed
the school board was “trying to do too
much for just a few and not a lot for
everybody."
Too much money was spent on
McDougle Middle School, and a more
sensible plan would have left funds to up
grade other schools, Cook said.
There is also a need for more schools to
alleviate overcrowding and to reduce the
teacher/student ratio, he said. Cook said
having smaller class sizes should help to
raise minority test scores.
Although Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools have the best overall Scholastic
Aptitude Test scores in the state, minority
test scores in the system are below average
compared to other minorities in the state,
he said.
“We have to consciously make an effort
to improve the minority scores,” Cook
said.
“We need to reduce the class size, de
velop individualized educational plans,
follow those plans and help all the teachers
■ Schools Should Try New Curricula
Sara Williams’ concern about the nu
merous problems in the school system has
prompted her to run for a school board
seat.
“I plan on focusing on three issues,”
Williams said. First, she said she wants to
decrease the gap between the minority and
majority in the schools. Second, Williams
said she wanted to look at fiscal issues in
order to closely examine how the schools’
money is spent. Site-based management is
also concerns Williams, she said.
If these issues are corrected, the educa
tion of the children in the system will be
improved, she said.
Change might be what the school sys
tem needs to better the education of stu
dents, Williams said. “We don’t need the
old system if we’re going to compete with
nations like Japan,” she said.
Williams said she proposed that the
school system pilot a three track year-round
school. Implementing a year-round sys
tem will address the problem of overcrowd
ing in the schools, she said. This system
would allow for 33 percent more spaces for
children in the school system.
This increase is possible because all the
children would not be in school at the same
time, but would rotate on nine-week sched
ules, with three or four week breaks in
between, Williams said.
“With the year-round system there
wouldn’tbealong summer break but a few
weeks for breaks after every quarter, "Wil
liams said. “This would allow for more
retention on the child’s part. I bet that
scores would go way up if we had a year
round school.”
This change will increase the overall
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Cook said he believed this could be
accomplished through improved interac
tion and communication within the schools
and among those involved with the schools.
“I think there’s a communication prob
lem within the school system, and I think
the minorities have received less focus on
their children’s needs,” he said.
“The board has not done a good job
communicating to the community about
what programs they are planning to imple
ment.”
Cook said if he was elected, he would
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performance of a majority of the children
because they would have less time to forget
information, Williams said.
Elementary and middle school age chil
dren should be targeted for the year-round
school program, because some students
who reach high school cannot read or
write, Williams said. “This is the most
critical time for kids and early intervention
is the key,” she said. “We must reach
children while they are young.”
As for the concern about lower minority
scores, Williams said it may be necessary
to implement a different curriculum for
Kevin Cook
Age: 39
Address: 205 Somerset Drive
Previous Experience: PTA
president at Underwood
Elementary in Raleigh
Occupation: Owner and
president of Carolina Home
Mortgage
Children: Three
Length of Time in
Community: 2 1/2 years
Coflege Attended: N.C. State
University
work to establish true site-based manage
ment in the schools.
“Individual schools need a lot more
leeway in determining what their budget
and curriculum needs are,” Cook said.
“We need to allow the schools the freedom
to be able to make decisions that affect
their children.”
Cook said he believed strongly in ser
vice to the community, but has problems
with mandating service requirements. He
said a key to fostering a sense of commu
nity was that service should be voluntary.
PROFILE COMPILED BY CARLOS DE MATTOS
Sara Salama
Williams
Age: 44
Address: 222 Ridge Trail
Occupation: Program manager
for INCLEN (a physican training
program in School of Medicine)
Children: Two
Length of Time in
Community: 18 years
College Attended: UNC
minority students. “I know everyone has
the potential to learn,” she said. “It may be
that the present curriculum is not working
for minorities. A different curriculum may
need to be implemented in order to make
minority children learn more effectively.”
Williams also said she was concerned
about the lack of involvement of parents
and faculty had with school issues.
“If teachers, principals and board mem
bers can work together, our goals can be
accomplished much easier and effectively, ”
Williams said.
PROFILE COMPILED BY CHERYL CHIN
CITY
■ Smaller Classes Will Benefit Students
Asa parent oftwo children in the public
school system and a candidate for Chapel
Hill-Carrboro School Board, Harvey
Goldstein said he believed the major prob
lem with the school system is the issue of
overcrowding.
“I am an extreme advocate for excel
lence in schools,” said Goldstein, who
hopes to achieve this excellence by reduc
ing class sizes and coordinating the three
branches of local government to facilitate
the building of new schools. “Overcrowd
ing and class sizes are much too large for
teaching and optimal learning to take
place,” he said.
Solving this problem is a short and long
term concern, Goldstein said. Concerning
the short term goals, anew elementary
school and anew high school are set to
open by August. This will eliminate the
overcrowding for two orthreeyears.butall
schools will be over capacity by 1998,
Goldstein said. The school system will
need anew elementary and middle school
by the year 2000, he said.
The major source of financing for new
schools will need to be bonds, and other
sources will have to help, Goldstein said.
Goldstein also said there is a necessity
for coordination with the local govern
ment. “There is no coordination among
the three branches of local government.”
To achieve this coordination, Goldstein
said joint planning needed to exist among
the branches, and the board needed to
change the way the long-term capacity
plan for the schools was conducted.
Goldstein also said he was concerned
with improving minority test scores and
overall academic achievement. One way
to improve scores is to do a better job of
GOLD
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versity.
“Many of you here have played an im
portant part in my growth, and I sincerely
want to thank you for taking the time to
listen to me, for giving me good advice,
and, at times, for letting me cry on your
shoulder. It’s obviously paid off,” Gold
said.
Gold said teamwork was important to
University Police, and he said the changes
this summer were examples of what could
MEADOWMONT
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He said that Meadowmont was geared
towards wealthy residents, with future de
velopment of expensive housing and shops
instead of promised affordable housing.
“Instead of a council that insisted on
laying the foundation for the best future
that Chapel Hill can imagine, the majority
on council settled for the mediocre,” Foy
said.
Roger Perry, of East West Partners, the
developers of the Meadowmont project,
said his firm had done what it could to take
into account residents’ concerns.
East West Partners had been working
on Meadowmont for close to five years
and had made many revisions in order to
provide affordable housing and complied
with the town’s Comprehensive Plan.
During the meeting, council member
Rosemary Waldorf requested a stipulation
against East W est Partners. Waldorf asked
that East West Partners donate 18 acres to
ease the overcrowding of Chapel Hill-
Carrboro schools. The developers offered
only 10 acres Monday night. East West
Partners could not begin development un
til this stipulation is reached, Broun said.
IfEast West Partners agreed to the stipu
lation, they must then apply for a land-use
permit in order to begin development, still
several months away, Broun said.
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having effective parental supervision and
mentors for the children, he said.
Many black students come to school
unprepared to learn because they have not
had parents to help them with their school
work and learning, he said. On the elemen
tary levels, parents of minority students
often are not there to read to their children,
which is a vital part of learning.
Academic achievement is also a con
cern of Goldstein's. “I don’t think our
schools are academically challenging all of
our students,” he said. “All our students
are capable of academically achieving
be accomplished through cooperation.
“What we started over the summer was
giving our employees wider input into the
directionofthedepartment,”hesaid. “For
the first time in an awful long time, this
department came together and did an aw
ful lot of good stuff for this community.
“They initiated a quality improvement
program within the department that was
unparalleled at the University at that time;
they worked very hard at accreditation.
Everyone in this room who wears this
uniform knows how hard we worked,”
Gold said.
Campus Calendar
WEDNESDAY
3 p.m. UNC COUNSELING CENTER will
have a Dissertation Support Group in Nash Hall.
Call 962- 2175 for more information.
3:30 p.m. UNC COUNSELING CENTER will
have a support group for Women Graduate Students
in Nash Hall.
4 p.m. UNDERGRADUATE SOCIOLOGY
CLUB will meet in Union 210.
5 p.m. YOUTH ANGST SOCIETY Five stu
dents will read poetry, prose and drama in the Bull’s
Head Bookshop at die second YAS reading. Brian
Blanchfield, Claire Campbell, Susannah Joy Felts,
Johnny Knight and Gary Mason will read from their
work.
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION will have an infor
mation session in 308 Hanes Hall.
5:30 p.m. NEWMAN CATHOLIC CENTER
will have Student Night on Miracles with Father
Gamo.
6p.m. WESLEY FOUNDATION invites you to
dinner and Worship service at 214 Pittsboro St. Cost
is $2.
CAMPUS SCOUTS will have an organizational
meeting on the second floor of the Union.
ELECTIONS BOARD will meet in Suite C of
fice 217 G to prepare for the remainder of the semes
ter.
6:15 p.m. LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINIS
TRIES will meet for worship and a fellowship meal
in the Campus Center in Holy Trinity Lutheran
Church.
6:30 p.m. WIN will meet in 302 Dey Hall.
7 p.m. NC FELLOWS AND LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT will sponsor the workshop,
“Communicating with Power” in 101 Greenlaw.
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY will meet in
Union 205- 206.
UNC ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB will have
two speakers in New Carroll Tl,
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Harvey Goldstein
Age: 48
Address: 1508 Jones Ferry Road
Previous Experience: PTA
President Orange County Skills
Development Program Board
Occupation: UNC professor
Children: Two
Length of Time in
Community: 13 years
Coßege Attended: Columbia
University
more.”
The size of classes needs to decrease,
which will permit the teachers to address
independent needs. “Smaller class sizes
will improve the test scores of all students,
not just those of the minority,” he said.
Goldstein also said the members need
to regularly go out into the community and
talk to various groups about how well they
believe the members are doing their job.
“There needs to be more formal and infor
mal lines of communication, not just par
ents, but others who have a stake, ’’ he said.
PROFILE COMPILED BY MEGAN MONTGOMERY
Since 1992, Gold has served as opera
tions manager of the department, coordi
nating special events and working with
Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Associate Vice
Chancellor Carolyn Elfland, who made
the final decision in the selection process,
said this history of collaboration was the
most important aspect of Gold’s resume.
Later,Gold, spoke ofthe need for greater
communication between the University
community and University Police. “It’s
been very clear to me over the years that we
serve the community, ” he said. “The com
munity has to have input into what we do.”
7:30 p.m. KALLISTU will meet in Union 226.
9 p.m. CLUB FIELD HOCKEY will meet for
practice on the Navy Field.
ITEMS OF INTEREST
CHILD ADVOCACY PROGRAM will meet
on Thutsday in Union 213 .
UNIVERSITY CAREER SERVICES will spon
sor several programs starting at 3:30 p.m. in 210
Hanes HaU and a presentation by Morgan Stanley at
7 p.m. at the Carolina Inn.
SEAC NATIONAL CONFERENCE VOLUN
TEERS wifl have an orientation meeting at 7:30 p.m.
on Wednesday in 209 Manning HaU.
HONOR COURT win have mandatory presen
tations for freshmen and transfers this week at 7 p.m.
in 106 CarroU HaU, 100 Hamilton HaU and 209
Manning.
CAMPUS Y win be hosting a Catalyst for Posi
tive Social Change outreach Nov. 10-12. The Y is
looking for hosts and facilitators to help touch the
lives ofteen-agers across thestate.Formore informa
tion, caU 962- 2333.
HEALTH SCIENCE LIVING AND LEARN
ING PROGRAM wiU have a discussion about AIDS
at 8 p.m. on Wednesday on the second floor of
Carmichael dorm.
UNC RUNNING CLUB win have group runs
Monday-Friday at 6 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. No
meetings Saturdays.
CaU Jon at 968-8654.
SURVIVOROF SUICIDE SUPPORT GROUP
meets the first and third Thursdays of each month.
CaU Brenda at 489-5473 for more information.
HELLENIC ASSOCIATION is announcing the
start of Greek dance classes. Classes win be held
Wednesday, 7-8 p.m. and Saturday 1-2 p.m. in Stu
dio A in Wooden Gym.
CAROLINA S.A.F.E has openings for CPR and
First Aid courses. CaU962-CPRI for more informa
tion.