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North Carolina Room
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Volume 44, Number 29
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. THURSDAY, March 22, 2018
Forsyth to get!
new election
board soon
Gov. Cooper
finally appoints
State BOE
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE
There will soon be a
very different makeup for
the Forsyth County Board
of Elections, but that may
change as the court battle
over election boards con
tinues.
CAMPAIGN
On Friday, Gov. Roy
Cooper appointed eight
members to the new State
Board of Elections &
Ethics Enforcement. This
includes Forsyth County’s
BOE Chairman Republican
Ken Raymond, who has
resigned his local position
so he can serve on the state
board. The state board has
set empty for nearly 300
days due to a lawsuit
Cooper filed against a state
law, which Republican leg
islators passed shortly after
he won his seat in 2016.
That law would change
See Board on A8
(Above) The Forsyth County Board of Elections
will change to a hew four-member board that
will no longer include Ken Raymond (center),
who is now on the State Board of Elections.
Ellison
Photo by Tevin Stinson
Panelists discuss their college experiences during the college forum at Winston-Salem Preparatory
Academy on Friday, March 9.
County plans
Human
Services
consolidation
BY TODD LUCK
THE CHRONICLE___
Forsyth County commissioners passed a resolution
declaring their intent to consolidate the departments of
Social Services and Public Health.
Commissioners voted 8-1 on the resolution, which
authorizes staff to prepare a strategy for the merger.
Consolidation is mainly about who runs the departments,
which currently both have their own board that can hire
and fire their directors. Consolidation will create a com
bined Human Services board with a Human Services
director that’ll be hired by the county manager with the
advice and consent of the board. The vote begins a
process for possible consolidation, and commissioners
are scheduled to a hold a final vote on it in June. If
r
Prep alumni return
to discuss life
after high school
BYTEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
Members of the
Winston-Salem
Preparatory Academy
(WSPA) Alumni
Association returned to
their alma mater last week
to sit down with the Class
of 2018 to discuss life after
high school. During an
open forum held in the
library, students had the
opportunity to discuss all
aspects of college life;
from picking the right
schedule to party life and
everything in between.
Abriana Kimbrough,
president of the WSPA
Alumni Association started
the college forum in 2015
to provide first generation
college students with infor
mation she wish she had
when she started college at
Wake Forest in 2011.
Kimbrough said the pur
pose of the event is to con
nect the graduating class
with resources to be suc
cessful in college and
beyond.
She said, “When I sat in
your shoes back in 2011,
there wasn’t anybody to
come back and say I’m
going to be a mentor for
you. So I graduated and
decided to bring back peo
ple to share their experi
ences and build relation
ships with current stu
dents.”
This year the panel,
held on Friday, March 9,
featured young profession
als who all took different
paths after higt\ school.
Featured panelists were
Chloe Wilbom, Kwa’Tre
Hollingsworth, Benjamin
Brantley and Jalen Hatton.
To jumpstart the con
versation, Kimbrough
See Alumni on A8
“When I
sat in your
shoes back in
2011, there
wasn’t any
body to come
back and say
I’m going to
be a mentor
for you. ”
-Abriana Kimbrough,
president of the WSPA
Alumni Association
El-Amin Martin
approved, consolidation would go into effect in July.
County Commissioner Vice Chairman Don Martin
said he felt this would actually further remove both
departments from politics, since the county manager will
be hiring the Human Services director and not commis
sioner-appointed boards. He said consolidation will
improve both departments.
“It is philosophically designed to improve services to
those who are least fortunate so that the Health
Department and the DSS group can be working together
to ny to solve various problems in this community ,” said
Martin.'
Commissioner Everett Witherspoon, the sole “no’
vote, disagreed with Martin, saying that since the county
manager directly answers to the commissioners, it would
give them greater influence over the departments.
“I think the firewall between the Board of County
Commissioners and Department of Health director,
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N.C. public schools resegregating, study finds
BY CASH MICHAELS
FOR THE CHRONICLE
There are more high poverty
schools, containing more poor chil
dren of color, across North Carolina
now, resulting in an alarming reseg
regation.
That is the contention in a new
report, “Stymied by Segregation:
How Integration Can Transform
North Carolina Schools and the
Lives of Its Students” by Kris
Nordstrom, a policy analyst with the
NC Justice Center, a non-partisan
progressive policy group.
According to the “Stymied by
Segregation” report, school districts
in New Hanover, Guilford,
Mecklenburg and Wake counties,
among others have the largest
increase in income-based segrega
tion.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg has the
most racially segregated school dis
trict in North Carolina. Guilford and
Forsyth counties are among the 10
most segregated school districts in
the state.
The report analyzes the past 10
years on trends in public school seg
regation in North Carolina, and
notes that the number of racially and
economically isolated schools has
increased; economic segregation is
on the rise, even though the racial
See Schools on A8
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