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BY SARAH FRIER
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Representatives of the county's
two school districts highlighted
differences as they asked for
money from the Orange County
Board of Commissioners on
Tuesday.
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools Superintendent Neil
Pedersen boasted of high student
achievement and new facilities.
Its $6.8 million budget, if
approved, will go towards the
construction of Morris Grove
Elementary School and several
new student programs and ser
vices.
Although four of the Orange
County school campuses were
built in 1952 and need renova
tion, members of the Board of
Education said they would rather
use their proposed $23.7 million
budget to focus on classroom
initiatives, such as closing the
achievement gap and encourag
ing college enrollment.
“Orange County still loses
between 90 and 100 students
a year —that's way too many,"
Superintendent Patrick Rhodes
said.
Commissioners Mike Nelson
and Alice Gordon said they would
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have preferred to see school reno
vations in the OCS plan.
“As soon as we can do it,” Gordon
said.
Both districts are experienc
ing explosive growth right now,
CHCCS Vice Chairwoman Lisa
Stuckey said.
CHCCS hosted 98 new Karen
refugee students this year and
expect more of the Burmese refu
gees next year.
It plans to spend $100,244 on a
newcomer and welcome center to
help assimilate them.
The county schools expect more
than 70 new students next year.
"It makes OCS what was once a
small district into a medium dis
trict," Rhodes said.
As gas prices rise, both schools
requested more money for fuel
expenses.
CHCCS requested three times
what Orange County Schools
requested, which can be attributed
to the cost of building anew school,
said Steve Scroggs, assistant super
intendent for support services.
One of the city schools' major
concerns is having enough money
to expand school technologies.
Board members want to be
able to give high school teachers
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“We could spend
several times over
what we ve asked
you for and not
waste a dime ”
AL HARTKOPF, OCS BOARD MEMBER
trict and use innovative teaching
methods.
“We feel like we’re behind the
curve on that one," Pedersen said.
They also requested money to
boost teachers' salaries. The dis
trict currently supplements teacher
salaries 12 percent, which places it
behind other districts.
“It's hard to retain the best peo
ple who may have other options,"
Pedersen said.
Nelson said he is concerned
that OCS’s lean budget w-ould not
move the district forward quickly
enough.
And board member Al Hartkopf
said renovating schools should have
been a priority long ago.
“We could spend several times
over what we’ve asked you for and
not waste a dime of it," he said.
Discussion will continue, and
neither budget will be approved
until this summer.
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students.
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abroad because of seeing (CPA's
presentation of a Cambodian clas
sical dance group), and we already
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Obama: McCain
better than Bush
READING, Pa. (AP) - Barack
Obama, who often argues that
John McCain is the same as
President Bush, said Sunday that
the Republican presidential can
didate would be an improvement
over Bush’s eight-year reign.
Before the positive comment,
Obama had argued that the
Republican offers a vision identi
cal to that of the Bush administra
tion. His backhanded compliment
threatened to undercut efforts to
portray the nominee-in-waiting as
nothing more than an extension
of Bush's unpopular tenure.
McCain courts
Southern blacks
SELMA, Ala. (AP) -
Republican presidential candi
date John McCain said Monday
he knows it will be difficult to
win over black voters who have
supported Democrats for gen
erations.
McCain chose to kick off his
“It’s Time for Action" tour in the
region named for its black soil,
which once produced bumper
crops of cotton. These days, it is
two-thirds black and struggling
with higher unemployment than
most of the rest of the state or
the nation.
have a student group working with
Uganda,” he said.
Hefley said she also hopes those
at tonight's performance will be
able to see how music and dance
can help relay her group’s hopeful
message.
"I have never known anyone who
left a show and wasn’t inspired."
Hefley said.
“These young people are part of
their own solution—they're writing
anew future for themselves."
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, 2008
African nations rally in opposition
to government actions in Zimbabwe
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa (AP) Zimbabwe’s regime
got a taste of the international iso
lation critics say it deserves, with
its neighbors uniting to block a
shipment of Chinese arms to pre
vent them from being used against
Robert Mugabe’s opponents.
Union, church and human
rights leaders across southern
Africa rallied against allowing the
Chinese freighter An Yue Jiang to
dock at ports in any of landlocked
Zimbabwe's neighbors, and they
were bolstered by behind-the
scenes pressure from the United
States.
Euro hits a record
height on Tuesday
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP)
The euro roared to another
record high Tuesday, crossing
$1.60 after a pair of ECB gover
nors said high inflation may cause
the bank to raise interest rates.
The euro rose as high as
$1.6018, more than a penny above
the $1.5916 it bought in New York
late Monday. The euro has risen
20 cents against the dollar in just
five months and 10 cents in just
two months.
The dollar's slump is a boon
for U.S. companies that rely on
exports, but it’s the bane of trav
elers as worldwide inflation rises,
air fares climb and prices rise.
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ally unwilling to criticize Mugabe
barred the ship at a time when
Zimbabwe's government is being
accused of cracking down on dis
senters.
In Washington, the State
Department said it had urged coun
tries in southern Africa nota
bly South Africa, Mozambique,
Angola and Namibia not to
allow the ship to dock or unload.
It also asked the Chinese govern
ment to recall the vessel and not to
make further weapons shipments
to Zimbabwe until the postelec
tion crisis is resolved.
Indonesia sees
torch protestors
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP)
Torchbearers ran laps with
the Olympic flame in front of an
invitation-only crowd Tuesday
after officials changed the relay
route from Jakarta’s streets to
a sports stadium amid pressure
from China to keep away dem
onstrators.
Police arrested several pro
testers and seized Tibetan flags
and banners in the latest actions
against a global relay to promote
the Aug. 8-24 Olympics.
Criticism of China's human
rights record has turned the
relay into one of the most con
tentious in recent history.
seating level.
The CAA will discuss possible
changes to the policy with Gwaltney
this summer and next semester.
“I'm sure there will be some sub
tle changes," Gwaltney said.
Although the CAA has no control
over the number of seats students
receive, Boone said the organiza
tion would do all it could to make
the most of the available seats.
"Ifstudents want tickets, by God,
we'll give them to them.”
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