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•Volume 44, Number 41
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C
THURSDAY, June 14, 2018
Board defers new Ashley school
Fight for new building before 2024 continues
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With a number of #ActionForAshley sup
porters in attendance, board members
voted earlier this week to move forward
with a schematic plan for a new middle
school in the northwest portion of the
city.
Earlier this year, faculty, staff, and stu
dents at Ashley Academy for Cultural and
Global Studies complained that lingering
mold in the school was causing upper res
piratory problems. After air quality test
results showed mold growth and mold
samples inside several HVAC units, board
members voted to clean the HVAC units
and replace the units at the end of the
school year.
#ActionForAshley, a group of commu
nity activists who have vowed to stand up
for the students parents, teachers, and fac
ulty, believe the only way to make things
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right at Ashley is to build a new school.
And on May 22 more than two dozen
activists carrying signs demanding a new
school delivered their message directly' to
the board.
While the Board of Education hasn’t
Jabbar
totally said ‘No’ to a new Ashley, they
have basically told supporters ‘not right
now.’ Although plans for a new school
were included in the 2016 Bond Proposal,
construction isn’t scheduled to begin until
2024.
During the board meeting on Tuesday,
June 12, city native and longtime commu
nity activist A1 Jabbar raised questions
about transparency on the part of the
board. He also questioned the distribution
of tax dollars to certain schools.
“We should not be coming forward and
listening to someone who can’t make a
report with dates that’s attributed to the
work they’re suppose to be doing,” he
said. “We hold you accountable as a school
board to ensure these things happen. You
pay people hundreds and thousands of dol
lars to do this work and you don’t hold
them accountable.
“We look for better results in the
future. I pray I don’t have to come before
you again with this same concern, but I
will.”
When it came time to vote on a
schematic plan for a new middle school on
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Photos by Tevin Stinson
Students from Carver High School cheer on their fellow classmates during the commencement ceremony
on Saturday, June 9 at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds Annex.
Alumna to grads: Fight
through struggles
Attorney Nicole Little awards $500
scholarship to Carver student
BY TEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE__
Triumph over tragedy.
That was the parting message from Attorney Nicole
Little to the graduating seniors at Carver High School last
weekend.
"Today marks the closing of one chapter of your life
and the beginning of a new journey. Get excited," said
Little. "There is a world of endless opportunities out there
waiting for you to take it."
As a 2009 Carver graduate, less than 10 years ago.
Little sat in the same seats the Class of 2018 occupied last
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Charity Wardlow, a graduating senior at Carver
High School, receives a $500 scholarship from
Attorney Nicole Little last weekend.
W-S Bar names
scholarship for
Hayes and Atty.
Annie Kennedy
BYTEVIN STINSON
THE CHRONICLE
In honor of the late Judge Roland Hayes, and Attorney
Annie Brown Kennedy, the Winston-Salem Bar
Association has established a $1,000 scholarship.
Since 1984, the Winston-Salem Bar Association
(WSBA), which is comprised of primarily African
American attorneys and attorneys of color, has worked to
promote equality, enhance professionalism and encourage
educational achievement.
Photo by Tevin Stinson
Forsyth County Resident
Superior Court Judge
Todd Burke delivers the
keynote address during
the Winston-Salem Bar
Association’s
Scholarship Luncheon
on Tuesday, June 12.
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annual Scholarship
Luncheon has served as the
associations’ capstone
event. Annually, WSBA
holds an essay contest and
the winners are announced
and provided monetary
awards during the lunch
eon.
This year, WSBA
expanded the competition
to include four scholarships
for graduating seniors. The
Judge Roland Hayes and
Attorney Mrs. Annie
Brown Kennedy
Scholarship was awarded
for the first time to Kimaly
Dixon, Xavier Bankhead,
Jaelyn Nichols and Jyuana
Gray.
Judge Hayes.became
Forsyth County’s first
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appointed him in 1984. Hayes was re-elected several
times until he was forced to retire in 2002 because of age.
He continued to serve as an emergency judge until he
died in 2013.
Attorney Kennedy, a native of Adanta, was the second
African-American woman ever licensed to practice law in
N.C., and a founding member of the Interracial
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NAACP threatens lawsuits over charter school and voter ID
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
RALEIGH, N.C. -
•North Carolina civil rights
leaders are threatening to sue
the state over a recently
passed law that allows most
ly white communities near
Charlotte to create their own
charter schools and a poten
tial new voter ID law.
"Legislating state-spon
sored discrimination cannot
continue without conse
quences," North Carolina
NAACP President T.
Anthony Spearman said at a
Monday, June 11, news con
ference.
Spearman called this
year's General Assembly the
"suppression session." He
said his organization will
join with fellow civil rights
group Color of Change to
urge Apple and Amazon not
to put new campuses near
Raleigh because of the pro
posals.
The charter school law
passed last week without
Democratic Gov. Roy
Cooper's signature because it
is a local bill. It allows the
mostly white and well-off
Charlotte-area communities
of Matthews, Mint Hill,
Huntersville and Cornelius
to apply to create charter
schools outside Charlotte's
system.
The Charlotte branch ot
the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored
People held its own news
conference last week to
speak out against that bill .
"Lawmakers in Raleigh
are taking us back to the
future with unambiguous
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