ir ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY APPLICATION ON TA ? / - ? -L < < ? ? ? ? t ? , 1 " ? Opinion ? , ? ? G FOR ? -w?.LER AMONG HOPEFUL FOR OLYMPIC " Sports W' The Choice for African-American News and Information THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1994 ' Power conccdcs nothing w ithout a sn uggle. " ? Frederick Douglass j Y> * ? vV a s ' ? i -Salem Chronicle Thp Chnin? fnr A frimn _ A merim n \It> \a > r A1 I VOL. XX, No. 42 State's Black Superintendents Passed Over ? ? ^ ; : -h- ? ? ? : : ; ? ? r- : i ? : r-l ? ' ; ' ? ? ? > ? By Local School Board's Search Committee Black superintendents compare favorably to local candidates By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer _ g . ^ ^ ? the 49,000-student Cumberland County school system in Fayetteville for nearly two years. He has staunch support from his school board and his district has undergone redi striding under his leadership. , A perfect candidate for the superinten dent's position in Forsyth Countv? Think again. Inside Coverage School-board member says board abuses executive session. page 3 > NAACP president says search process excluded blacks. page 3 Superintendent finalists leave a lot to be desired. page 10 t Griffin is one of seven black superin tendents from across the state who were shunned by the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County school system during its search for a .superintendent. School officials won t say how many ? if any * ? blacks applied, but the semifinalists are all white males. "I was aware, of the opening, but no one asked me to apply for the position." said Griffin, who has headed the system since February 1993. "1 remember receiving a document that' asked if I knew of someone see STATE'S page 3 ? Qwiml. wnm The mutual " Community Off with Ray", which pro ..CfltfM AM* tTmivmmmi+m \'f ?::? '. ' 'j&Sra&fe'-* NFL star vide s schc summer. By DAVID L. DILLARD Chronicle Staff Writer . Ray Agnew Jr. says his U lot of money, but were rich in Motivated by a strong fatl play professional fcbtbdH, Agi in Piedmont Park housing dev his dream and now he wants h their goals. ^ A defensive end with t! Patriots of the National Foe started the Kay Agnew Schol Black Superintendents In N.C. 1. John Griffin 2. Larry Bell Location Cumberland Co. Sampson Co. 4. Willie Peele Martin Co. 5. James Wilkerson Warren Co. 6 Norma Sermon-Boyd Jones Co. 7. George Hood - Weldon Co. 1.49,000 2 6,677 3. 6,293 4 5.007 5. 3.016 6.T.521 7. 1,200 Source'. N C Pep) ol Public Instruction Semmnallets for WS/FC Superintendent . 1. 17,500 tj 14.000~ 3. 13,400 4. 5,500 5. 4,100 6. 2.550 I " ' -? ?? Fked-ih June 1993 * = Cprrentfy associate professor at University of Mississippi; last worKed as superintendent from 1989 1993 Source WS/FC School System t . Donald Martin Jr. Rowan-Salisbury 2. George Fleetwoods Randolph Co. Q Doniolpr ifuHfill Qftltflm/iilfl ij; Mvoot? nuyiaiuf iiouuii Ola luovnro 4. Andrew Overstreet Orange Co. 5. William Leary* Gloucester, Mass. 6. James Kent Marblehead, Mass. Readers Less ( ' Million Grant A After revisions, proposal for enterprise community has better say Bv VERONICA CLEMONS Chronicle Staff W nter Winston-Salem's $3 million enterprise-community grant appli cation, presented Tuesday night and due in Raleigh a day later, looked like a totally different document than the one that was harshly criti cized last week, city officials and residentsag ree. ? - t? " 1 can read and feel a different spirit than the one last week,"' said Thomasena Caldwel 1. Caldwell and other readers of the documents who criticized the original $3 million application last week, said the revised version encompassed everything the origi nal document missed. "1 feel comfortable with our sending this document to Raleigh, then Washington and wherever else we can send it to get some money," Manderline Scales said. "We ought Stephen Fails to be proud, and I think they will be proud to get it in Washington." Readers of the document said last week that it probably would not get approved in its original condi tion. They said it was too long, some of the language was offensive see READERS page 8 Foster Parents Ask Commissioners for Monthly Increase B\ VERONICA CLEMONS Chronicle Staff Writer Foster-care parents along with their chil dren and other supporters crowded into the Hall of Justice Monday night to urge county commissioners to approve the proposed funds for the Department of Social Services. The proposed appropriations in the 1993 94 budget for DSS include money to increase the foster-care board rate from $265 to $400 a month. Sandy Ivester, co-president of the Foster Parent Association, said it is hard to recruit foster parents with the very low rate. ."We need more foster parents, but instead we are losing them," she said. She said foster parents were losing money instead of being properly compensated for caring for their fos ter children. She said increased costs come from inadequate medicaid reimbursement, transportation to the different meetings the children must attend monthly ami children destroying personal possessions that must be replaced. Jackie Moore, liaison for the Foster Par ent Association, said medicaid doesn't cover over-the-counter medications like cough syrup, and some foster parents must pay for day care if there are no day-care funds avail able. Moore said foster parents believe there is no reason why the commissioners shouldn't approve the increase. "We figure that children are more impor tant than animals and recreation," she said. The county's budget proposes that the increase occurs in increments, going up to S365 by July 1 and $400 by Jan. 1,1995. "We support them," commissioners vice chairman Mazie Woodruff said. "Those are our children."^ Moore said this will be the first rate increase foster parents have received since 1990. Then they got a $15 increase which raised the board rate from $250 to $265. Moore said many community groups assist the foster-care program. Churches donate items, some community groups get involved for holidays and special events like playing Santa Claus at Christmas and donat ing prom dresses. Some people even offer to babysit while parents go out or attend meet ings. Moore added that the First Assembly Church sent 20 foster children, who had been sexually and/or physically abused, to a resi dential camp for a week at about a cost of $10,000. Ivester and her husband pointed out that being in a foster home is better for the chil dren than group homes, which would cost ? hundreds of dollars more a month than $400. And children can grow up in happy homes, but the foster parents need help. 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