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THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1994
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VOL. XX, No. 42
State's Black Superintendents Passed Over
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By Local School Board's Search Committee
Black superintendents compare favorably to local candidates
By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer
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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
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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
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By DAVID L. DILLARD
Chronicle Staff Writer .
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lot of money, but were rich in
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play professional fcbtbdH, Agi
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Patriots of the National Foe
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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
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Semmnallets for WS/FC
Superintendent
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tj 14.000~
3. 13,400
4. 5,500
5. 4,100
6. 2.550
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Source WS/FC School System
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2. George Fleetwoods Randolph Co.
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4. Andrew Overstreet Orange Co.
5. William Leary* Gloucester, Mass.
6. James Kent Marblehead, Mass.
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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.
"We can make a difference in these chil
dren's lives." said Ron Ivester. co-president of
the association. "If they are not given the care
they need now then our community will suffer
lately,"
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