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Tuesday, September 24,1996
4 ABC’ plan not easy as 1-2-3, teacher says
■ Schools are scrambling
to enact the Legislature's
latest education plan.
BY WILLIAM GARVIN
AND APRIL DEMERT
STAFF WINTERS
After a recent change in the public
education policy by the N.C. General
Assembly, teachers will be forced to leam
their ABCs all over again.
The ABCs of Public Education is a
new plan set up by the state Board of
Education in an effort to speed up progress
in student achievement.
The ABCs stand for accountability for
each school, an emphasis on the basics of
education and a transfer of control back
to local schools.
“One of the major aspects of this plan
is to return control back to teachers, prin
cipals and parents on a local level,” said
Richard Thompson, deputy state super
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class for the day of honoring historically black colleges.
“This day is special for me because it brings the whole
campus together, it gives NCCU a day to celebrate," Wiley
said. “Today makes me want to go out and register people to
vote.”
About 30 speakers emphasized the power of the vote to
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intendent
This emphasis on local control in
cludes allowing schools to set up their
own specialized education program, de
creasing the level of state-required test
ing and giving each school district more
financial independence.
Besides giving local schools more con
trol, the new plan will also make admin
istrators and teachers more responsible
for student success, Thompson said.
“We’re holding individual schools
more accountable,” he said.
Thompson said the schools who have
exceeded their preset goals by 10 percent
would receive financial rewards.
The principals of schools thathave not
met the necessary requirements will be
suspended and die school will be as
sessed by an assistance team.
The assistance team steps in once the
state determines that the school has not
reached its benchmark goals, a high per
centage of students are not performing
on their grade level and there is a down
ward trend in achievement scores, Th
students and other onlookers who gathered at the event.
“I encourage you to vote because your vote makes a differ
ence,” said Sen. Jeanne Lucas, D-Durham.
With the recent Supreme Court ruling that declared District
12 unconstitutionally drawn due to gerrymandering, Rep.
Melvin Watt, D-N.C., has been surrounded in controversy.
Watt said he believed the Supreme Court wanted to do away
with his district because it had too much people power.
Because the next president could have the power to appoint
up to four justices to the Supreme Court during his tenure, Watt
said as many people as possible should vote for a president who
would represent their interests.
“If we do this we will have a voice,” he said.
Watt said students could not forget the legislative branch
either, as those leaders control higher education funding.
“You as students have vested interests in the outcome of
these elections,” Watt said. “It’s about student loans and the
amount of aid to education.”
Watt encouraged students to go door to door, dorm to dorm,
street to street and house to house to get people to vote.
Alexis Herman, the director of the White House’s office of
public liaisons, gave similar advice.
“We want you all to be involved in the 3-T strategy. The first
T is target, the second T tum-on and the third T turnout,”
Herman said.
“Target is for getting all unregistered voters to become
registered voters. Tum-on is to encourage voters there is a
reason why their vote counts. Turnout is for all voters to get to
the polls.”
Voter registration booths lined the campus during the day as
encouragement, but final tallies were unavailable atpress time.
Rep. Cleo Fields, D-La., was instrumental in organizing
HBCU Day around the country. He encouraged citizens to
vote about issues that concerned them and made them mad.
“Today began an ongoing effort for exciting students to
vote,” Fields said. “To get them out to vote for someone to
protect education, believes in student jobs and education is
important.”
“/ think that every teacher
works as hard as they can
to teach every child, so I don’t
think that the incentives will
have a lot of effect. ”
JUDY HENDERSON
Second-grade teacher
ompson said.
Once an assistance team has been as
signed to a school, they will evaluate
each teacher’s separate performance to
find out where the problem lies.
If the assistance teams give a negative
evaluation to a teacher twice, the teacher’s
position will be terminated unless they
successfully appeal their case.
Some don’t believe that this system of
rewards and punishments will work as
well as it sounds.
“I think that every teacher works as
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hard as they can to teach every child, so
I don’t think that the incentives will have
a lot of effect,” said Judy Henderson, a
second-grade teacher at Wilkesboro El
ementary School.
Wilkesboro is just one of the schools
that has begun the implementation of the
ABC program.
“It’s just like anything else, there’s
good parts and there’s bad parts,”
Henderson said.
Henderson said one of the major ad
vantages of the program was its emphasis
on the basics of reading and math skills.
She said she thought the major fault of
the program is that it came from legisla
tors instead of educators.
Thompson said that the program will
be flexible enough in its first year to deal
with these problems.
“We will constantly be reforming the
program,” Thomson said.
“It’s going to be a work in progress.”
Markßoyster, chairman of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Board of Education, said
the new program will not have as much
of an effect in his district.
“We are very fortunate to have al
ready implemented plans for student
achievement,” Royster said.
“We are going to be looking at what
we have been doing and fine tuning the
programs we have in place.”
Tuesday
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Center for
Teaching and Learning is conducting an in
formal lunch discussion on "Dealing with Stu
dent Fears and Anxieties About Course Sub
ject Matter” in Union 208-209.
3:15 p.m. The University Counseling
Center in Nash Hal] will hold a career clinic to
help students develop a plan of action for
choosing a major or career. The UCC will
conduct a minority student support group to
discuss the experiences and concerns that arise
from being a member of a minority group at
UNC on Wednesday, Sept. 25 at 3:30 p.m. in
Nash Hall.
3:30 p.m. University Career Services
will conduct Job Hunt 101 A, exploring your
options workshop for seniors and graduate
students in 209 Hanes Hall. In 307 Hanes Hall
at 3:30 p.m., UCS will conduct an introduction
to internships for underclassmen.
4 p.m. The UNC Study Abroad office
will hold an information session on programs
in Greece in2O7H Caldwell Hall. There will be
an information session on internship programs
in Europe on Wednesday, Sept. 15 at 4 p.m. in
Union 226.
4 p.m. The International Studies Cur
riculum will present a foreign service informa
tion meeting featuring Peter Whitney, a diplo
mat in residence. Everyone is welcome. For
more information call Anne Scaff at 962-5442.
Crews continue cleaning
Fran-damaged gardens
BY CHERRIECE WRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
Two weeks after Fran ransacked the
area, cleanup efforts and costs continue
to plague the staff of the Totten Center,
Coker Arboretum and Mason Farm.
Efforts are slow-going because ofhun
dreds of large trees that are still down,
and cleanup crews are still trying to reach
hard hit areas.
Totten Center Director Peter White
said Monday that cost estimates were
going to take time to finalize because of
extensive damage to the center’s nature
trails. The center is located on Old
Fayetteville Road in Chapel Hill.
“We have some big trees still down,”
he said. “We are relying on the UNC
ground crews to help out.”
There was no damage to the Totten
Center buildings, and the display grounds
are open. White said only eight pine trees
to 10 pine trees were lost.
The nature trails remain closed on the
600 acres of grounds because of fallen
trees, and plants that were ruined will
have to be replaced, he Said.
White said downed trees damaged
buildings that were ready to be tom down
Campus Calendar
5:30 p.m. The Orientation Office is
recruiting orientation leaders! Attend the inter
est session in the basement of Granville Tow
ers East. Applications will be available at the
interest sessions only.
5:30 p.m. “The Peace Agreement Three
Years Later, Want to Know More?” Come
join Haverim students for Israel and N.C.
Hillel for dinner and a roundtable discussion.
5:30 p.m. The Senior Corps, the com
munity service committee for the class 0f1997,
will hold an interest meeting/sign-up for its
four fall service projects in the Carolina Union
Auditorium.
6 p.m. Green Games, a recycling/con
servation group will meet in the Union base
ment. Refreshments will be provided.
6 p.m. The UNC Scuba Club will meet
in 106 Gardner Hall. All interested divert are
invited to attend. There will be a discussion
tonight about the Fall Break trip. If you cannot
attend or would like more information call
967-7921.
6:30 p.m. Globe will hold its fiist meet
ing of the year in the Campus Y basement. Join
us in the discussion of international issues and
how we will educate the UNC campus about
them.
8 p.m. —The UNC Young Democrats will
meet in Union 208.
hems of Interest
The Catalyst will hold a meeting on
Ron Lieber
will discuss
his new book
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at Mason Farm, and an emergency ac
cess footbridge to the building was wiped
out because of flooding.
Nearly 1,000 students volunteered for
a campuswide cleanup on Sept. 11, and
several hundred went to Coker Arbore
tum. “The students and faculty who
helped were a big boon to our efforts,"
White said. “We felt pretty lucky when
Wellspring Grocery (employees) devoted
their efforts, but the students who came
out were a real big help.”
Coker Arboretum crews spent that
day cutting and piling up wood for stu
dents to haul away.
The Botanical Garden support group
will hold a second volunteer workday on
Oct. 19.
“A lot of students who enjoyed help
ing us are coming back to help us again,”
White said.
White said he was pleased with Chan
cellor Michael Hooker’s decision to can
cel classes for the Sept. 11 cleanup. “I
think it’s wonderful that (Hooker) recog
nized that the campus grounds are a great
part of the reason we are here and why we
stay here."
Hooker could not be reached for com
ment.
Wednesday, Sept. 25 from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. in
the second floor Union lobby. All are wel
come.
Carolina Chib Track and Field has prac
tice Monday through Thursday at 5 p.m. on
the track. Everyone is welcome! For more
information call Nicole at 929-1345.
The Health Sciences House now has three
openings for female residents on the second
floor of Carmichael Residence Hall. Please
pick up applications at the Carmichael Desk.
Applications are due by Oct. 11 in 225
Carmichael by 5 p.m.
Student Health Service is forming a diabe
tes support group. Call 966-6562 to enroll.
The Human Rights Campaign needs vol
unteers for phone operators, posting flyere,
data entry and routine office tasks. Shuttle
service from UNC to our RTP office is pro
vided.
For the Record
The Sept 20 article ‘Nation to celebrate
black college history* should have stated
that a representative for Gov. Jim Hunt
would speak at N.C. Central University on
Monday.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.