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PPPIP 2A ®«)0 NEWS/Ott ClarUnt Thursday, December 22, 2005 Task force starts job of winning converts Continued from page 1A Also, in January, four com munity meetings, in which the task force will have dis cussions with the general public, are planned “Those (community) meet ings wiU start right after the first of the year - after the last (college football) bowl game,” said Gantt, the former Charlotte mayor and Clemson graduate who has a passicm fix* sports. “We’re going to do whatever it takes to ha\^ face-to-face, in-depth discussions with the people in this community We feel that’s important, because these are changes that affect everycaie in this community Making certain everyone is educated about the process will go a long way” The task force, ultimately, needs the endorsement of “stakeholders” — parents, teachers, principals, adminis trators, elected officials and corpcrate and dvic organiza tions - in order to see its rec ommendations put into acticai. When the recommendation^ were introduced last week at the Govemmait C^ter, how- Griffin Poorest kids struggle in N.C. Continued from page 1A with those challenges,” Child care is an espedally difficult hurdle for low-income families, the study found. One in six pcxtr families have had to quit, refuse or change a job because of child care issues in the past year. More than 30,000 N.C. children can’t get child care subsidies their par ents need to afford child care while they work. The gap in health care between poor find upper- income children is closing, however. Higher^income fam ilies are three times more likely to have private health insurance, access to piabUcly- financed programs like Medicaid and Health Choice has trimmed the gap to 12 percent of North Carolinians who have any type of insur ance. Still, 1 in 5 low-income kids went without health insurance at some point the year bef(»e the survey “We know that working hard is not enou^ for half a million families wiffi children in North Carolina to afford the daily basics of life,” said Sorien Schmidt, legislative director of the N.C. Justice C^ter and a member of the institute’s board of directors. The survey is based on a 2003 survey of the Centers for Disease Control and Prev^tion of 1,800 N.C. par ents. On the Net: wwwjicchild/)rg ever, not everyone immediate ly embraced all of them, including par ents and public nffirifli.q alike. School board member Molly Griffin, who represents District 5, said she has encountered skepticism about the recommendations - and she even has some sk^tidsm of her own. “Absolutely, I think the com munity meetings will be real ly good - everybody needs to feel Uke they're a part of the discussion,” Griffin said “But Fm not sure I believe every thing in that report will be adopted. I just have a hard time seeing that happening.” Griffin expressed concern about the task force’s recom mendation to have one cen tral office but divide into three or four parts with each having its own superintendent, which would, among other things, individually choose how to educate its students. “Personally my first reac tion is they went a little too far when they started talking about curriculum issues,” Griffin said “Tbiafs not their area of expertise. I think that’s better left to the educa tors themselves.” Also, Griffin expressed doubts about the benefits of adding one appointed mem- her to the school board, as the taskforce suggested ‘T’m not sure how that would work,” Griffin said ‘T think there’s a strong possibil ity for t^ision among board members. It’s just a difficult dynamic. “But again, these really should be decisions based on what everybody thinks; not one person. Tliat’s why these meetings are so necessary so everyone has a voice. 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