TUESDAY
MEDICARE DIRECTOR
HHS Secretary Louis Sullivan has named
William Toby, Jr. as acting administrator of
the federal agency that directs Medicare and
Medicaid programs.
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This Week
FRIEND OR FOE?
Don King’s reputation has suffered a
knockout after allegedly taking millions of
dollars from former ring champion Mike
Tyson.
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When Martin Luther King, Jr. led the
first Selma-to-Montgomery March in
1965, they passed through Lowndes
County, where no blacks were registered
to vote. But Stokley Carmichael had
already started a voter registration
campaign there, and chosen a symbol for
his new party—the black panther.
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Wake Schools Revise
Carnage AG Program
BY CASH MICHAELS
Staff Writer
A revision for a proposed program
for academically gifted children
scheduled for Cnrnage Middle
School this fall has been approved
by the Program Committee of the
Wake County School Board and
parents who originally opposed the
plan say that now it’s on the right
track.
“Some compromises have been
reached that will make the AG
Basics program a fairer offering for
all children than it was before, but
we are still going to monitor it care
fully," said Yvonne Lewis Holly,
spokesperson for several concerned
Carnage parents.
It was April 20 when several Afri
can-American parents of Carnage
students, community leaders, and
former and current elected officials
packed into a public hearing of the
school board to voice opposition to
the program designed to give special
and exclusive attention to high
achievers.
Wake school officials said the
demand for such a unique program
was so great that they needed to
expand it to Carnage to deal with
the need, but opponents argued that
based on a current AG program at
Ligon Middle School, black students
would be unfairly overlooked to
qualify because the testing proce
dures were racially biased. It would
create a “white school within a
school” because the program would
separate AG students from their
counterparts, and a “social and aca
demic elitism” would develop be
cause funding and learning re
sources assigned to the AG basics
program would not be made avail
able to other students at the school,
critics said.
Many African-American commu
nity leaders objected to public tax
dollars paying for the “private
school” education of a select few
without guidelines that allowed all
children an equal chance of being
considered.
After the hearing, District 4 Rep
resentative Harriet Webster recom
mended, and the board approved,
that the program committee take
another look at the AG Basics pro
gram.
Last Tuesday, after much discus
sion, the program committee de
cided to revamp the proposed plan
so thatit could “meet the needs of all
students in an equitable manner.”
According to Wake school admin
istrators, the revamped AG instruc
(See CARNAGE, P. 2)
N.C. Democrats Choose
Convention Delegates
Democrats in all 12 of the state’s
congressional districts met at dis
CLARENCE LIGHTNER
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Eva Clayton Ready
To Run Off Against
Jones On June 8
BY CASH MICHAELS
SUffWrltcr
The name “Clayton” sure is
getting its share of newspa
per ink lately.
Former Warren County
Commissioner Eva Clayton,
who emerged from a large
group of candidates to run ^
strong second in the May 5
Democratic primary for the
First Congressional District,
has called for a runoff a ga i n st
frontrunner state Rep. Wal
ter B. Jones, Jr.
Observers say that because
voters in this newly created
n> ajority black district will be
choosing be tween a seasoned
African-American politician
and the son of a longtime
white congressional repre
sentative who has strong
name recognition, this con
test will be tough and too
close to call until after the
June 2 runoff.
EVA CLAYTON
Enter another notable
Clayton who says their cam
paign is more than ready for
the challenge.
That other Clayton is attor
ney Theadsius Clayton, Jr.,
(See EVA CLAYTON, P. 2)
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PRESENT YOUR RESUME
“Workforce *92,* a joint effort between the Greater Raleigh Chamber of
Commerce and Wake County Public Schools, will be held Wednesday from
; 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Raleigh Civic Center. This is a county-wide job fair
: for graduating seniors who plan to enter the labor market full-time after
• high school. Prior to the event, students attending will submit a skills
checklist, outlining courses and skills they have learned both in vocational
classes and on the job. They will also submit resum*#. Employers will
submit a skills checklist as to desired skills for entry-level positions, as well
(See CALENDAR, P. 2)
trict conventions last weekend to
decide delegates to the Democratic
National convention this July in
New York.
North Carolina has a total of 93
delegates to the national conven
tion, which will be held July 13-16
at Madison Square Garden in New
York City. Of those 93, 55 were se
lected at district conventions, along
with another 18 at-large delegates.
Clarence Lightner, a former
mayor of Raleigh and now a vice
chairman of the North Carolina
Democratic Party’s executive com
mittee, is chairman of the party’s
delegate-selection committee.
Party rules dictate that half of the
delegates from the state be women.
State party officials also prefer that
at least one-fifth of the delegates be
minorities to adequately reflect the
state’s racial makeup.
Delegates to the national conven
tion are determined by the percent
age each presidential candidate
received in the May 5 presidential
primary. Delegates are awarded by
congressional district.
A presidential candidate must
receive 15 percent of the vote state
wide and in the district to be eligible
to earn congressional-district dele
gates.
To be a delegate at the national
convention, one must begin running
at the precinct or county convention
level. Aspiring delegates must de
clare a preference for a candidate
and then be approved by the respec
tive presidential campaign to run at
the district and state levels. Dele
gates can also run as uncommitted
delegates.
Aspiring delegates go through
several rounds of voting at the dis
trict convention to become a dele
gate to the national convention.
The district conventions will also
select members of the state party’s
Council of Review as well as citizens
(See DEMOCRATS, P. 2)
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IN PROTEST- Rev. Van Slmpion (Tap Left) addresses
the crowd that recently took part In tho march from
Moore’s Square to tho Raleigh Municipal Budding hare.
(Top Right) Rev. David Foy led the cries of protesters
decrying tho slaying of Ivan Ingram. (Bottom) Protestor
holds up a sign calng for the removal of Police Officer
Vincent Kerr, who reportedly shot and kill Ivan Ingram, who
Is aloged to havo boon an Innocent bystandor during a
local police raid. (Photos by Carlton Barber)
No New Programs To Provide For
Increase In Jobs For Workforce
BY CHARLES E. BELLE
NNPA News Service
An Analysis
“There’s a sure-fire way to double
your money: fold it in half and put it
in your pocket.” The president is in
need of doubling America’s produc
tivity, if not its money. Making a
stab at it once ayear with the federal
budget is not the best any president
can do around this time of year.
You may not know exactly how
much money the president has to
play with each year when he pres
ents his national budget to Con
gress, so we will tell you. It’s what
ever figure he and his advisers can
agree on after adding on some fixed
expenditures like Social Security
and other transfer payments.
These transfer figures are merely
the spending of money that mostly
came in by way of a specific tax or
assessment. Everything else is up
for grabs. Spending how much and
on what are the issues, since more
taxes to raise funds are fatal in an
election year.
Also needed in an election year
are more jobs. A more productive
economy will create more employ
ment. Every elected official is
charged with creating a more and
better productive U.S. society. Since
the president is the No. 1 elected
official, he has the No. 1 responsibil
ity.
The Federal Reserve Board of San
Francisco in last month’s last
weekly newsletter clearly enunci
ates the proper policy for the presi
dent to follow. It states, “to sustain
its productivity growth perform
ance over the long run, the United
States must pursue policies that
will foster greater capital forma
tion, increased investment in the
infrastructure, expanded research
and development expenditures,
improved educational quality, and
entrepreneurial activity.”
The president with the
conscent of Congress
proposes to spend the
highest amount for defense
of $331.8 billion than either
the House or Senate plan.
A review of the approved
president’s new budget does not
even dip in these directions, but
caters to continue overfunding for
death. Dedicating excess dollars to
the defense budget for maintaining
a “new world order” by being the
(See NEW PROGRAMS, P. 2)
NCAE Hits Budget Proposal
Directly
Affecting
Children
“NCAE is completely dismayed at
Gov. Martin’s recent budget propos
als," said NCAE President Rose
Marie Lowry. “His proposed cuts
will directly affect children in the
classroom and the instructional
program in our schools. Education
in North Carolina will not survive
another round of cuts called for by
Gov. Martin."
Lowry was most disappointed in
Gov. Martin’s proposal to delete all
new funding from the Basic Educa
tion Plan. BEP ia scheduled to re
ceive $29 million in 1992-93. That
money would be used to hire 963
additional classroom teachers and
expand the instructional program,
especially in grades K-3.
“Continued fundingfor the BEP is
imperative to improving the quality
of education in the Tar Heel State,”
added Lowry. “Those teaching posi
tions must be filled in order to re
duce class size, a problem that is
dramatically growing.”
Recent data released by the De
partment of Public Instruction
shows that more than 7,000 class
size overages were reported at the
end of the second school month this
year. That figure is an increase from
511 classes that reported overages
two years ago.
“The alarming jump in class size
is cause for concern,” Lowry stated.
“Research shows that class size af
fects both the quality and quantity
of teacher time devoted to improv
ing student achievement. As a prin
cipal and former teacher, I know
from personal experience that class
size is a major factor in how well
children learn.”
Lowry said she is tired of hearing
Gov. Martin and legislators criticize
the BEP. “The commitment was
made to the program in 1984 and
lawmakers have a responsibility to
follow through with that commit
ment,” Lowry said. “As the practi
tioners, we have seer the benefits of
the BEP and realize its potential in
providing an equal and quality edu
cation for every child in the state In
order to do that, the BEP must be
fully funded and allowed to operate
properly.”
Lowry also expressed dismay at
Martin’s salary proposal for public
school employees. Instead of fund
ing the third year phase-in of the
teachers’ salary schedule, Martin
proposed a two-percent pay increase
for all state employees.
"The educators of this state want
what was promised to them and
what they deserve, in the way of •»
salaries,” said Lowry. *We are call
ing on the General Assembly to di
rect any funds available to achieve
full funding of the third year phase
in of the salary schedule plus the
experience step.”
(See BUDGET, P. 2)