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Friday, March 3, 2000
Local School Day Gets Longer
Bv Kellie Dixon
Staff Writer
l’he Chapel Hill Carrboro Board of
Education voted unanimously Thursday
night to adopt a plan that lengthens the
school day for elementary and middle
school students.
Board members became aware in
1999 that the school system was falling
short of a state rule that mandates 1,000
hours per year.
But they did not take action on the
problem until this year.
The proposal that Superintendent
Neil Pedersen presented to the board
differed from a plan proposed on Feb.
10, which called for adding 25 minutes
to the elementary school day, 20 min
utes to middle-school days and 10 min
utes to high-school days.
The newly adopted plan calls for an
extension to the elementary school day
by 20 minutes, the middle-school day by
15 and a shift in the high-school day by
five minutes in order to meet the state’s
1,000-hour requirement. The new plan
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will not take effect until next year.
Previously, the schools were meeting
the required number of days, as
opposed to the required number of
hours, Pedersen said.
Pedersen’s plan also recommended
an additional 20 minutes to the contracts
of teacher assistants, which raised a con
cern with board member Maryanne
Rosenman.
“Are you going to ask that assistants
get paid for extra minutes?” she asked.
“Weren’t they already getting paid?”
Pedersen answered the board mem
ber’s concern by saying he would still
like to add extra time so that the assis
tant teachers could receive more pay.
Assistant teachers are paid on an hourly
basis, and that base is defined by the
state at seven.
“Assistants cannot work over the
specified amount of time,” Pedersen
said.
Board member Gloria Faley worried
that because high-school students were
not getting any extra minutes, they
would miss out on the minimum
Arthur Busch.
Busch said investigators believe the
.32-caliber semiautomatic gun used
Tuesday to shoot 6-year-old Kayla
Rolland had been left, apparently
loaded, under jamellejames’ blankets in
a bedroom at the house where the boy
stayed.
Investigators also found a stolen 12-
gauge shotgun and drugs at the house,
the prosecutor said.
requirement.
Pedersen said he had suggestions for
the board, such as alternating the class
schedule, to alleviate constant absences
in certain classes.
“We can (lip the schedule so a couple
of courses don’t get the brunt of students
always missing class,” he said. “We
should revisit this and look at the things
that we can do.”
With the promise of flexibility in the
proposal, the resolution was passed.
Initially, several plans were brought
before the board, each of which varied
in length and sequence. All of those
were dropped for the new plan present
ed by Pedersen.
By adding time to the school day, the
board hopes not only to meet state
requirements, but to also prepare their
students better and to combat missed
tim due to extracurricular activities.
This was the first change in school
hours since 1993.
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James, 19, was arraigned Thursday
on the manslaughter charge, which car
ries a possible 15-year prison sentence.
He simply replied “yes” when the judge
asked whether he understood the charge
and possible sentence.
judge Richard L. Hughes set James’
bond at SIOO,OOO.
James made an obscene gesture
toward news photographers as he was
led out of the courtroom.
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LANDLORDS
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“Right now we’re not after fine
details,” Conner said. “This plan is a
basic co-organization of landlords and
tenants for the first time in the history of
Chapel Hill.”
Carol-Ann Gerrnslade, a member of
the Board of Realtors, said she was in
favor of the proposal, because a rental
licensing system would simply add
another layer of bureaucracy.
“Laws that cover all these points are
already on the books, and they are not
enforced,” she said. “Adding another
law that’s not enforced won’t improve
things.”
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Chapel Hill resident Estelle Mavery
of Pritchard Avenue disagreed with the
majority and said she favored anew
licensing agreement. “You have to have
a license to sell anything,” she said. “If
you’re making money, you need to have
a license.”
Although many voiced concerns
ranging from occupancy rates to the
enforcement of the licensing system,
most agreed on the proposal without
making any changes.
The plan is being offered to the Town
Council as a replacement for the rental
licensing system that has been proposed
in the town’s Comprehensive Plan,
which will be voted on later this month.
The plan - which outlines the town’s
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Carolyn Baucom, a local landlord,
said the question of enforcement of the
system lay in the hands of the people.
“We as a group - students, tenants
and landlords - need to stay on the
town’s back about enforcement,” she
said.
Mills said Thursday’s meeting was
not about individual neighborhood con
cerns but about coming together as a
group to discuss creating a more effec
tive landlord-tenant system.
“This is about education, enforce :
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already."
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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