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Education Commissioner John King Restructures Statewide Forums

By Delani Weaver

State Educaon Commissioner JohnKing recently announced he will hold anew forum in Syracuse within the nextsix weeks. King and members of theBoard of Regents will be discussing theCommon Core academic criteria andother policies related to educaon.Parents and educators are invited toaend.

The forum is one in a series of 12forums that will be held in dierentschool districts statewide. Althoughthe schedule has not been nalized,

the meengs will take place in schoolauditoriums, including one in theAlbany City School District on Oct. 24.Forums will also be held in Westchester,Schroon Lake, Binghamton, Amherst,Rochester, and Jamestown. There willbe two each in Suolk and Nassaucounes.

King made the announcement Friday.

The Board of Regents approved thereforms, including adopon of theCommon Core in 2010, Board ofRegents Chancellor Merryl H. Tischsaid. Were just starng the secondyear of full implementaon withaligned assessments. Its a good me

for the Regents and the commissionerto meet with parents and teachers tounderstand how the implementaonis going and what adjustments, if any,

have to be made.

Last week, King was the target ofintense anger and hoslity fromaendees at the rst forum inPoughkeepsie, Oct. 10.

Parents at the meeng spoke outagainst how fast the Common Corestandards were being implemented.The forum was so heated; Kingcancelled four other forums that hadbeen scheduled to follow the event.The New York State Parent TeacherAssociaon (PTA) was the sponsor ofthe sessions.

Again, King was ercely cricizedby parents and the state teachersunion aer the announcement of thecancellaons.

And, this me, the cricism came notonly from parents and educators butstate lawmakers as well. King wascalled on to resign from his posionby Nassau County Republican Sen.Jack Marns and Assemblyman TomAbinan, D-Mt. Pleasant, WestchesterCounty, who said King closed o allmeaningful conversaon with parents,educators, administrators and electedocials.

In self-defense, King said Tuesday theforums didnt provide construcvecontext for dialogue.

With hopes for more structuredforums, the new forums will bemoderated by state legislators in theirdistricts.

I want to have a respecul, direct,and construcve dialogue withparents, King said. More and smallerdiscussions will make sure theres areal opportunity for parents to beheard. This is just the rst round;well connue to schedule forums forparents. We want these to be regular

events.

King will also hold four televised forums

at New York State Public BroadcasngStaons (PBS) that will include a studioaudience. The forums will be recordedfor television broadcast and online.The rst has been scheduled for Nov.7 on WCNY-TV in Syracuse.

We want the conversaon to riseabove all the noise and make sureparents understand the CommonCore, and, just as important, we wantto understand parents concerns, Kingsaid. We all share the same goal, to

make sure our students have the skillsand knowledge to be successful in achanging world.

Educaon Commissioner John King


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NY seeks OK to drop eighth-grademath test for students taking algebra Regents exam

NEW YORK -- New York State hasproposed leng eighth-graders skipthe statewide math test if they takethe algebra Regents test.

The Wall Street Journal reports that thestate would have to get clearance fromthe U.S. Department of Educaon for

the rules change. The department hasgiven states unl Nov. 22 to requestpermission to cut back on so-calleddouble tesng.

The state Educaon Department willask the Board of Regents to considerthe proposal on Monday.

States are required to test studentsannually in English and math in gradesthree through eight.

New York students must take veRegents tests to graduate from highschool.

Some take the algebra Regents ineighth grade and others in ninth grade.

About 57,000 eight-graders took theRegents algebra test last spring.

Excellus dropping out of Medicaid managed care

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) ExcellusBlueCross BlueShield says its droppingout of public health insuranceprograms for the poor and disabled.

The insurer has noed doctors andother providers its withdrawing fromthe Medicaid managed care andFamily Health Plus programs becauseit expects to lose about $100 millionon those programs this year. The movewill aect more than 22,000 centralNew Yorkers.

George Dooher, an assistant

commissioner of the Onondaga CountyDepartment of Social Services, tellsthe Syracuse Post-Standard (hp://bit.ly/18fqeTL ) hes been scrambling toprotect customers and make sure theyconnue to have access to health careand their providers.

Dooher says the state HealthDepartment is developing a plan tomove aected individuals into otherplans.

Health Department ocials were notimmediately available for comment.

Students Applaud Henninger High School Teachers Symbol of SolidarityOenmes you hear of studentsgeng together and agreeing to dressin a certain color to make some sortof statement about an issue withintheir school. Several Syracuse teachersfrom Henninger High School decidedto make a statement by wearing allblack to work as a symbol of solidarityFriday, in protest of state-mandatedperformance evaluaons.

As the teachers were walking into the

building in their black clothing, theywere applauded by the students goinginside with them. Teachers said theyare furious with the results of theirevaluaons, which were given to themlast Friday, and said they believe theevaluaons are unfair.

The student improvement secon wasthe biggest problem for the teachers,as every teacher in the enre schoolreceived a zero for that parcular

secon. The teachers said they shouldhave received 12 out of the 20 alloedamount of points, but received zeroesdue to the district using a dierentform of calculaon.

The teachers planned to work only therequired hours which are 7:45 a.m.to 2:50 p.m. Once the day was overthe teachers would walk out of thebuilding with the students rather thangoing in early and staying late.

President of Henningers Parent-Teacher-Student OrganizaonChrisne Cook said she enjoyed seeingthe teachers united.

Actually some of the teachers are sodedicated that its my understandingthat theyre going to walk out at theme, but then theyre going to slipback in to work with students, shesaid.

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Some standardizedtests in New York public schoolswill be eliminated, state EducaonCommissioner John King has toldsuperintendents in a surprisingannouncement that cites a varietyof pressures that may have hurtinstrucon. The move comes aer

years of cricism from teachers,parents and other detractors, some ofwhom said it sll fell short.

The rst target will be an eighth-grade math test, which comes at thesame me as a federally requiredstandardized test in math, King wrotein a leer sent Thursday and obtainedby The Associated Press.

The Board of Regents is consideringeliminang that test and others where

possible in other grades, King said.Some tests, however, are required bythe federal government. Grants will

be provided to help school districtsreduce local standardized tests, theleer states.

Nong that the frequency and numberof tests has remained relavelyconstant over the past 10 years,King wrote to leaders of more than700 districts that educaon ocialsrecognize that a variety of pressures

at the state and local level may haveresulted in more tesng than isneeded and in rote test preparaon

that crowds out quality instrucon.

King told the state School BoardsAssociaon on Friday that nothingis seled yet but the U.S. EducaonDepartment seems recepve togranng the Regents exams requestfor a waiver, according to Robert Lowry,spokesman for the New York StateCouncil of School Superintendents,

who was in the audience for Kingsspeech.

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The move came aer an outcry overtesng and teacher evaluaons linkedto the results, which peaked whenKing was shouted down by crics at anOct. 10 forum in Poughkeepsie. Thatconfrontaon that led to cancellaonof other scheduled forums and callsfor Kings resignaon.

This week, King said, the Regentsdiscussed a comprehensive iniaveto keep the focus on teaching.

The Regents and the department willconnue to look for ways to reducetesng that is not needed withoutsacricing the valuable informaonassessments provide, King toldsuperintendents in more than 700school districts. We welcome yourinput.

Its potenally a marked change forthe Board of Regents, which hasweathered cricism for well over adecade as it tried to improve studentperformance and instrucon. Its stepsincluded introducon of so-calledschool report cards that allowedthe public to compare schools

performance, detailed analysis oftest scores to pinpoint weaknessesand best pracces, curriculumrevised by experts, and far morerigorous requirements for high schoolgraduaon to beer prepare studentsfor college.

Performance in most areas improved,including closing the gap between poorand average-needs schools. But withthe added tesng by the state and thefederal government introducing higherstandards known as Common Core,there was more concern that studentswere too stressed and teachers spentme teaching to the test.

Superintendents welcomed Kingsmove. They were eager to address thedouble, and somemes triple, tesngof eighth-graders, Lowry said.

Standardized tests do have a placein educaon but not for what theyrecurrently being used for, said TeresaThayer Snyder, superintendent of theVoorheesville Central School Districtsouth of Albany. Theyre very usefulfor diagnoscs but to use blanket

standardized tests over an extendedperiod of me for very young learnersis not an appropriate way to representlearning.

The eort is too lile and too latefor Allies for Public Educaon, whichcalled for Kings resignaon this week.

Eliminang a few standardized testsis like touching up the paint on a carand expecng it will run when in factit has a faulty engine, said the groupsspokesman, Eric Mihelbergel. Unlthe high-stakes nature of tesng isremoved and the collecon of privatepersonal student data is halted, ourchildren will connue to be harmed.

Billy Easton of the Alliance for QualityEducaon, which has long cricized thetests, added: We need less tesng,but we also need to freeze all high-stakes consequences ed to tesng.

King told superintendents that therst goal is to eliminate double tesngfor eighth-graders in math, which willrequire federal approval.

King told the AP that he and theRegents will look to reduce mulpletests at other grade levels and pareaway tests that dont support theCommon Core goal of crical thinking.He said the department is alreadygranng approvals to school districtsremove some annual local tests andexpect to grant more.

Were rmly commied to the workon the Common Core and teacher andprincipal evaluaons, but recognizethese iniaves will be challengingand require careful adjustments alongthe way, King said in an interview.

He said reducing tesng will also bepart of his connuing communityforums.

Students are best prepared tosucceed academically through rigorousand engaging instrucon, not rote testpreparaon, King said. Teaching isthe core of our work.

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By PHILIP ELLIOTT

WASHINGTON (AP) Almost 6 million

young people are neither in school norworking, according to a study releasedMonday.

Thats almost 15 percent of those aged16 to 24 who have neither desk nor job,according to The Opportunity Naoncoalion, which wrote the report.

Other studies have shown that idleyoung adults are missing out on awindow to build skills they will needlater in life or use the knowledge theyacquired in college. Without thoseexperiences, they are less likely tocommand higher salaries and morelikely to be an economic drain on theircommunies.

This is not a group that we can writeo. They just need a chance, saidMark Edwards, execuve director ofthe coalion of businesses, advocacygroups, policy experts and nonprotorganizaons dedicated to increasingeconomic mobility. The tendency isto see them as lost souls and see themas unsavable. They are not.

But changing the dynamic is not goingto be easy.

The coalion also nds that 49 stateshave seen an increase in the numberof families living in poverty and 45states have seen household medianincomes fall in the last year. The dourreport underscores the challengesyoung adults face now and foretellchallenges they are likely to face asthey get older.

A young persons community is oenclosely ed to his or her success. TheOpportunity Naon report tracked16 factors Internet access, collegegraduaon rates, income inequalityand public safety among them andidened states that were doing wellfor its young people.

Topping the list of supporve statesare Vermont, Minnesota and NorthDakota. At the boom? Nevada,Mississippi and New Mexico.

Their desny is too oen determinedby their ZIP code, said CharlieMangiardi, who works with Year Up, anonprot that trains young adults forcareers and helps them nd jobs.

We have the supply. We dont havea lack of young people who need thisopportunity, Mangiardi added.

Just look at some of the naonslargest cies. Chicago, Houston, Dallas,Miami, Philadelphia, New York, LosAngeles, Atlanta and Riverside, Calif.,all have more than 100,000 idle youth,the Opportunity Naon report found.

Oen mes they lack the social capital

in life, Mangiardi said. Theres awhole pool of talent that is movated,loyal and hardworking. They just cantget through an employers door, headded.

Thats why Year Up spends a yearworking with high school graduatesto teach them career skills such ascomputer programming or equipmentrepair they can use when the programends. It also includes life coachingso they can learn skills such as memanagement. More than 4,500young adults from urban areas havecompleted the program and 84percent of them have found work.

But its a far tougher me for otheryoung people.

In Mississippi and West Virginia, 1 in 5young people are idle higher thantheir older neighbors. Mississippi hasan overall unemployment rate of 8percent, while West Virginia postsabout 7 percent. Like most states, theysaw their unemployment rate fall since2011, but researchers cauon thatshi could come from fewer residentslooking for work and from more whohad simply given up their search for

jobs.

And its not as though the challengesemerge from nowhere. Quality earlychildhood programs help studentsfrom poor families overcome societalhurdles, and on-me high schoolgraduaon rates oen follow qualityschools other factors OpportunityNaon examined in its report.

A lot of mes we dont want to lookat data because we dont want to

be depressed, said Rob Denson,president of Des Moines AreaCommunity College in Iowa.

But its an uncomfortable reality thatneeds to be addressed, he said.

Using previous years reports fromOpportunity Naon, Denson helpedrally community organizaons in hiscity to develop a pilot program to helpstudents as young as 14 nd summerwork.

When we got the index, it reallyallowed us to use it as a rallyingpoint for all of the community-basedorganizaons we work with to say,

Look, this is what the world sees whenthey look at Iowa, he said.

Starng next summer, Des Moinesstudents will be placed in paying jobs,part of a citywide collaboraon to helpits urban communies. It will helpolder adults, as well, because crimerates are expected to fall, he said.

If theyre not in school or at work,Denson said, theyre not usuallydoing something posive.

Study: 15 percent of US youth out of school, work

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By Lisa Dumas

Syracuse City School District suspensionrates are far above the naonalaverage, with disproporonate ratesfor black and Hispanic students,according to ndings from Dan Losen,director of the Center for Civil RightsRemedies at UCLA.

He began an analysis of discipline datasent to him by the district in July, aerSCSD hired him following the Aprilrelease of UCLAs Civil Rights Project

study tled Out of School and O-Track: The Overuse of Suspensions inAmerican Middle and High Schools.

Out of 5,675 districts across thenaon, the 12.6 percent of enrollmentthat Syracuse suspended, at leastonce, in 2009-10 ranked it among thetop 100 suspending school districts inthe naon, the report said.

According to the study, Syracusesuspended secondary school studentsat a rate of 31 percent, compared to

the naonal average of 11 percent inthe 2009-10 school year.

Losen said Syracuse suspensionrates exceeded the naonal averagein all categories, including thosebroken down by race and disability.In addion, he said the studyshowed large numbers of dispariesbetween minority students andtheir counterparts, regardless of theamount of students in each group.

Losen presented the data to the school

board at its meeng on Sept. 30.

According to his report, 52 percentof black males in Syracuses middleand high schools were suspended atleast once during the 2009-10 schoolyear, compared to 48 percent of Lanomales and 31 percent of white males.

In addion, 39 percent of all blackstudents, compared to 31 percent ofHispanics and 21 percent of whiteswere suspended in the 2012-13 schoolyear, correspondingly. Students with


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and 57 percent of whites.

Losen said the reason for thedisparies was unclear; however,the largest disparies were for minoroenses, such as those that didntinvolve weapons, drugs, or violence.In comparison, he said the suspensionrates for more serious wrongdoingswere nearly equal for each group,overall.

There are two things folks need tokeep in mind, Losen said. Acrossthe board, for all students, Syracuseis suspending really high numbersof students. Even in elementary,Syracuse is one of the top 100

suspending districts in the naon. Andthe disparies are not just about race.There are disparies between thosewith disabilies and kids without.This policy is not healthy for any ofthe kids. There is a disproporonateimpact on minories more thanothers. Why? Its because the policyand pracce is already very excessive.When suspensions are used far toooen, you see more disparies. Wecompared racial gaps between blackand white kids, and when we lookedat the most serious oenses in thosecircumstances, the dierence wasmuch smaller.

Losen also said it was possible

racial bias came into play during thesuspension process, but, if so, it wasprobably done subconsciously.

I think its important to keep it inperspecve, he stated. Peopleconcerned about racial bias will think,oh, Im accusing people of being racist.As I pointed out, I may also haveunconscious racial bias while workingat the Center for Civil Rights Remedies,which can aect my acons withoutme even knowing it.

Sll, despite the possibility ofprejudice, Losen said he thought it wasimportant to stay away from poinngngers and laying blame.

Some may have thought that I wasblaming teachers in my presentaonof the data, he said. Im a formerteacher. I taught for ten years.Teachers are really an integral part ofthe soluon. Supporng teachers isabsolutely crical. Im dedicated toworking with the district in a way thatis construcve; its not about poinngngers.

SCSD has reportedly extended Losenscontract for another six months and anaddional $30,000. Now, he said, theplan is to nd an appropriate soluonto the problem.

Theres a whole array of tools thatneed to be used more oen, he stated.Some may be as simple as using ISS(in-school suspension) more oen.The informaon suggests suspensions

are not being used as measures oflast resort. And thats just restoravepracces. Social emoonal learningmay also help. So, one of the things Ithink Syracuse is looking at is changingtheir policies around school discipline.Another thing is training the leaders

and teachers around dierent ways ofapproaching discipline. This was not anal report. It raised some quesonsthat I hope to be working with thedistrict to further understand.

School board president Pat Bodysaid she agreed. Body said the bestnext step would be for Losen to takea deeper look at the data to nd outwhat the issues are.

We need more details about it inorder to nd a soluon, she said. Thedata just tells us whats happening,it doesnt tell us how to solve it; andwe want to solve it. For the violentoenses, there isnt any discrepancy.

According to Dan Losens report,the discrepancy just seems to be forminor oenses. What I can say to youis that, in 2012, we became aware ofthe suspension data, and the boardand the superintendent became veryconcerned about it. So, we began atask force to review the suspensionrate. We do take this very seriously.We want to look into the maermore deeply. Weve also contractedwith a professional developmentorganizaon, so the teachers willbe trained on that. Weve also hiredsocial workers who will be going to thedierent schools and addressing thoseissues. If a child is angry or upset, theycan address the issue at that me.

Were trying to take a mulfacetedapproach so that were looking at allthe dierent areas. Were trainingthe teachers, were training theprincipals. Weve been meeng withthe principals and weve been goingover the disciplinary processes theyneed to follow.

In addion to the task force, Body saidsome addional steps the district maytake will most likely include a reviewof the SCSD code of conduct as well asan eort to gather feedback from thecommunity.

I think whats going to happen iswere going to listen to what the

community is saying, and were goingto try to listen to what is unclear, shestated. Were going to review thecode of conduct and also be takingin Dan Losens informaon. So, weregoing to take in all of the dierentvariables. We want to come up withdierent soluons; we dont want tojust suspend kids all the me. But, weneed more in-depth data to make surethe soluons were coming up with tthe problems. If not, were going totake a look at other soluons.

Preston Fagan, president of theSyracuse/Onondaga branch of theNAACP, said he also has quesons, but,so far, he hasnt goen any answers.

Im highly upset and very concernedbecause the numbers are verydisturbing. Fagan said. And no onehas really given any type of reason

for the disparies, which leads me tothink it was not just by chance butmore by design. These out-of-school

suspensions, in some cases, were forminor oenses. So, that is alarming.I was always an advocate of ISS andnot OSS (out-of-school suspension). Itseems like ISS has decreased and OSShas increased. It doesnt take a rocketscienst to gure out something iswrong. Whose idea is it to suspendthese students? Is it the principals? Iknow the teachers can recommendit. And when was the superintendentinvolved? I know she can removestudents as well. And, aer all myquesons are answered, Id like toknow what correcve measures are inplace.

Previously, sources said the Syracuse

branch of the NAACP was consideringling a lawsuit against the districtbased on the high rate of suspensionsfor minories, but Fagan said thatsnot the case.

I have a lot of quesons and I needsome answers before I can even makean intelligent decision on what thenext step is, he said. They need tojusfy why students are suspendedout of school and, once we look at allthe issues and start poinng ngers ithad to at least start with the principal Id like to know what the protocol is to

make that decision. So, no, I never saidand never will say the NAACP is linga lawsuit, unless weve already led

one. But the NAACP is going to takean acve role in the research and theinvesgaon of what is going on. And,once were quite sure our informaonis correct, then were stepping out.

Addionally, Fagan said the problemis one that has been happening foryears, so its important to look at thedata from the beginning.

This suspension rate didnt justhappen, he said. There was a studydone in 2009. Were all just now takingnoce. Were screaming about today,but it didnt start today. This has beenongoing. I want to go back and trackwhere it started, how it started, and

ask, Why is it connuing?

Ulmately, Body said she would liketo see the district begin looking foranswers and reviewing the code ofconduct by next month.

This is how long I would like to see ittake, she said. I would like to see usstart in November; I would like to seeit complete by February. Thats what Iwould like to see. Of course, it couldtake longer.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Theres somegood news on college tuion. Yes, thecost has gone up - but not as much in

the past.

For in-state students at a four-yearpublic college or university, publishedtuion and fees increased this year onaverage $247 to $8,893. Thats a 2.9percent increase - the smallest one-year increase in more than 30 years,the College Board said Wednesday inits annual report on college prices.

Out-of-state prices, as well as the coststo aend public two-year collegesand private instuons rose but theyalso avoided big spikes, said SandyBaum, co-author of the report. Thesemore moderate increases could lessenconcern that an annual rapid growth is

tuion prices in the new normal.

It does seem that the spiral ismoderang. Not turning around, notending, but moderang, Baum said.

The average published cost for tuionand fees at a private college for the2013-14 academic year was $30,094 -up $1,105. An out-of-state student ata public college or university faced anannual average price tag of $22,203,which is up $670. The average pricetag for an in-state student to aend atwo-year instuon was much less at

$3,264 - up $110.

Most students dont actually pay that,

though. There are grants, tax creditsand deducons that help ease the costof going to college. About two-thirdsof full-me students get grants, mostfrom the federal government.

But, in the two years leading up to the2012-2013 school year, the federal aidper full-me equivalent undergraduatestudent declined 9 percent, or about$325.

That means students have to footmore of the bill themselves.

The rapid increases in college priceshave slowed, however, student andfamilies are paying more because

grant aid is not keeping up, said DavidColeman, president of the CollegeBoard.

While the average published price fortuion and fees for a private collegeis $30,094, the net price is $12,460 -up $530 from last year. The net priceis what they actually pay aer grants.There were years this decade that sawthe net price going down, but it hasgone up the last two years.

The average published in-state pricefor tuion and fees at a public four-

year school is $8,893, but the averagenet price is about $3,120.

Molly Corbe Broad, president of theAmerican Council on Educaon, in astatement called it troubling thatoverall grant aid is not keeping up withprices. Her organizaon representsthe presidents of U.S. colleges anduniversies.

Instuons are commied to holdingdown costs, but it is equally importantfor state and federal governmentsto play their part to make collegeaordable, she said.

The College Board is a not-for-protmembership group that promotescollege access and owns the SAT exam.

The report spells out the large declinesin state appropriaons given to publicinstuons in recent years. These cutshave been blamed for rises in collegecosts. Other causes oen cited rangefrom the high cost of health care foremployees to the demand by studentsfor ashier campus amenies.

Among the other ndings in the report:

- Adding in costs for room and boardto live on campus, average annualpublished costs: At public, four-yearuniversies, $18,391 for in-state

students and $31,701 for out-of-statestudents; $40,917 for private collegesand universies; $10,730 for in-state

students at public two year schools.

- The average published tuion andfees at for-prot instuons increasedby $70 to $15,130 - an increase of lessthan 1 percent.

- New Hampshire and Vermont had thehighest published in-state tuion andfees at both four-year and two-yearinstuons. Wyoming and Alaska hadthe lowest published in-state tuionand fees at a four-year instuon,while California and New Mexico hadthe lowest in-state among two-yearschools.

- In 2012-2013, $238.5 billion

in nancial aid was issued toundergraduate and graduate studentsin the forms of grants from all sources,Federal Work-Study, federal loans andfederal tax credits and deducons.Also, students borrowed about$8.8 billion from private, state andinstuonal sources.

- About 60 percent of students whoearned bachelors degrees in 2011-2012 graduated with debt, borrowinga total of $26,500 on average.

College price hikes appear to be moderating


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Maryland HBCU Case Has Implications for America

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - A federaljudges ruling that Maryland violatedthe constuonal rights of thestudents at its historically Black collegeand universies by perpetuangsegregaon will have a signicantimpact both within and beyond thestates borders, experts said.

Federal District Judge Catherine Blakeruled Oct. 7 that Maryland, by allowingtradionally White instuons toduplicate programs already oeredby historically Black colleges anduniversies, had created de factosegregaon in its higher educaonsystem.

Maryland oered no evidence that ithas made any serious eort to addressconnuing historic duplicaon.Second, and even more troubling, theState has failed to prevent addionalduplicaon, to the detriment of theHBIs, Blake wrote in her opinion.

Clion Conrad, a professor at theUniversity of Wisconsin, Madison, andan expert in the area of segregaonin higher educaon, said programduplicaon is a major indicator ofthe dualism that sll exists in highereducaon despite the passage oflandmark cases such as the 1954Brown v. Board of Educaon and the1992 U.S. v. Fordice, which aempted

to migate the problem.

Brown didnt work in highereducaon, did it? No, said theprofessor, who worked on Fordice andwas called as an expert witness in theMaryland case.In her opinion, Blake noted thatstatewide, 60 percent of the noncoreprograms at Marylands HBCUs areunnecessarily duplicated, comparedwith only 18 percent of its TWIsnoncore programs. And, of the uniquehigh-demand programs that fuelenrollment, there was an average of17 per TWI and only three per HBCU.

The lack of unique programs at HBCUs

has a segregang eect since it

decreases the schools aracvenessto students of all races, said LezliBaskerville, president and CEO ofthe Naonal Associaon for EqualOpportunity in Higher Educaon(NAFEO), mirroring Blakes conclusions.

When you undercut and duplicatethose courses oered by HBCUs, youare not just segregang the schoolsand perpetuang a dual system ofeducaon, you are undermining our(Black) instuons in terms of growth,she said.

Conrad concurred, saying, thepresence of unique programs leads toincreased funding.

When you have unique, qualitynoncore programs the money willcome, he said.

Both Conrad and Baskerville said JudgeBlakes ruling could serve as a wake-up call to other jurisdicons, sinceMaryland is not the only state that haslingering policies traceable to the dejure or legal era of segregaon.

This (decision) is signicant not onlyfor Maryland, Baskerville said. Wewere waing with bated breath forthe ruling, hoping that this would setgood precedent for at least four otherstates.

NAFEO has complaints pending inat least four other states includingFlorida, Oklahoma and Texas. Andthere have been other red ags instates like Louisiana, Georgia andOhio, she said.

For example, Baskerville said, GeorgiasSavannah State University, an HBCU,launched an acclaimed homelandsecurity program that promised todraw students from all over. Within amaer of months, however, the stateallowed a TWI in close proximity tolaunch a replica of that program andenrollment in the HBCUs programpetered out.

[The Maryland ruling] gives usthe leverage to go to other statelegislatures, higher educaon systems,etc. and see if states have willinglyor unknowingly perpetuated a dualsystem of higher educaon and toaddress the problem, she said, lateradding, The judge went to greatlengths to establish a good recordfor what states should look at inmaking good decisions about whetherthere are lingering eects of de juresegregaon.

In her opinion, Blake oered guidelinesMaryland should consider as theydeveloped an approach to dealing withthe segregave program duplicaon.

Those included expansion ofmission and program uniqueness andinstuonal identy at the HBIs, andeven the transfer or merger of selecthigh demand programs from TWIs toHBIs.

Any soluon will pose a dicult

challenge to the state, Conrad said.Resources will have to be appropriatedfor faculty training, facility rehabbingand the like, which may be less taskingthat trying to divvy up the programsamong the instuons.

Its tricky because you have a lot ofinstuons involved. So its goingto invite some creavity in ndingthe remedy to give HBCUs a usefulprogrammac identy, Conrad said.Its challenging; its not going to beeasy. Instuons like things to stay asthey are [so] change and innovaoncan be painful.

But the pain is worth it, he added.

It is 2013. We need to get rid of thevesges of segregaon and move on,he said.

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14 www.cnyvision.com |october 24 - 30| 2013OPINION/EDITORIAL The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do notnecessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision

(TriceEdneyWire.com) - A teamof African-American preachers

has sent a leer to PresidentBarack Obama armingtheir commitment to theAordable Care Act even asthe President has ordered thewebsite overhauled.

We believe that accessto quality health care is afundamental civil and humanright in America. Historically,

over seven million African-Americans havebeen uninsured and denied access to care withdevastang consequences. The Aordable Care Actprovides African-Americans, along with Americansof all naonalies, access to desperately neededquality health care, states the leer, signed by 14Black preachers, all of whom lead major clerical or

civic organizaons. We arm our support for theAordable Care Act. We understand that over measpects of the Act will be revised as governmentlearns more and to-be-expected administraveglitches will be appropriately addressed but it isessenal that we work aggressively with what wehave right now. We cannot aord to put this oany longer. Any further delay will have catastrophiceects on the naons uninsured.

The three-page leer, complete with supporngscriptures, and starng with Dear Mr. President,was released to the media Monday evening.

The 14 names on the leer are the Rev. Dr. OsMoss, Jr. chair, Faith Partnerships; Inc.; the Rev. Dr.Barbara Williams-Skinner, co-chair, Naonal AfricanAmerican Clergy Network, who is heading the eort;

the Reverend Dr. T. DeWi Smith, Jr., co-chair,Naonal African American Clergy Network; the

Rev. Dr. Carroll A. Balmore, president, ProgressiveNaonal Bapst Convenon, Inc.; Bishop George

E. Bale, Jr., senior bishop, African MethodistEpiscopal Zion Church; Bishop Charles Edward Blake,Sr., presiding Bishop and Chief Apostle, Church ofGod In Christ, Inc.; Bishop John R. Bryant, seniorbishop, African Methodist Episcopal Church; theRev. Dr. Ambassador Suzan Johnson Cook, foundingpresident, Women In Ministry Internaonal; BishopPaul A. G. Stewart, Sr., acng senior bishop, ChrisanMethodist Episcopal Church; Bishop Paul S. Morton,internaonal presiding bishop, Full Gospel BapstChurch Fellowship Internaonal; the Rev. Dr. JuliusR. Scruggs, president, Naonal Bapst Convenon,USA, Inc.; the Rev. Al Sharpton, president, NaonalAcon Network; the Rev. Dr. Stephen Thurston,president, Naonal Bapst Convenon of America,Inc., the Rev. Dr. C. T. Vivian, president, SouthernChrisan Leadership Conference.

The leer was released only hours aer PresidentObama held a Rose Garden press conferencedeploring the embarrassing glitches that haveslowed enrollment on the website, HealthCare.gov, while praising the benets of the new plans forthose who have successfully enrolled.

...The problem has been that the website thatssupposed to make it easy to apply for and purchasethe insurance is not working the way it should foreverybody. And theres no sugarcoang it, Obamasaid. The website has been too slow, people havebeen geng stuck during the applicaon process.And I think its fair to say that nobody is morefrustrated by that than I am - precisely because theproduct is good.

For anyone experiencing problems or needing

answers to quesons, he announced the toll freenumber, 1-800-318-2596 for help. The President has

also embraced the Republican-invented nicknamefor the Aordable Care Act. In a video, distributed

by mass e-mail, he has ppealed for people to JoinTeam Obamacare.

Meanwhile, amidst escalated cricism of the plan- mainly by Republicans - the pastors and theirassociates bolstered their support.

We, leaders of predominantly African Americandenominaons and other faith leaders, who leadmillions of African American people of faith,believe that our devoon to God requires us to beacvely involved in promong the well-being of allpeople, states the leer. In some cases, we canbest accomplish that objecve by execung clearlydened, focused collaborave eorts amongstdenominaons and other faith based groups. Webelieve in those cases we can accomplish moretogether than we can separately. The issue of

providing all Americans with access to quality healthcare is one of those issues.

The leer lists their specic commitments, includingto Facilitate the crical enrollment numbersnecessary to ensure the success of the Aordable CareAct and Seek other opportunies to work towardsimproving the health status of our constuenciessuch as Health and Wellness Sundays which willinclude themac preaching on specied Sundaysalong with other related acvies.

They appealed for other pastors to sign onto theleer and the commitment: We call on all othersof like minds and empathec hearts to join in thispublic armaon by axing your names to thishistoric document.

Black Clergy Push Obamacare Enrollment as Glitches Get Fixed

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The Washingtonelite arereturning to theirobsession with

the long termbudget crisiswhich meansextremists areonce againcalling for benetcuts to SocialSecurity andMedicare. Last

week as the government reopened,President Obama called for coolerheads to prevail and warned electedleaders to ignore the bloggers and paidacvists who have been distracnglawmakers from the real task ofgrowing our economy. The presidentswarning should also apply to so-calledmoderates who connue to succeed

in creang a fable to convince raonalpeople to agree to make sacrices offamily sustaining programs, ratherthan ask the rich to pay their fair shareof taxes.

The plotline of the fable is thatthe growing share of elderly in ourpopulaon creates a growing shareof non-workers the rest of us mustsupport through Social Securityand Medicare. In this warped tale,as the elderly become a bigger shareof the populaon, they will take awayfrom resources the rest of us need.

In parcular, the rapid increases inmedical costs mean the elderly willconsume a disproporonate share ofresources, because they tend to have

more expensive health care needsthan the rest of us. According tocurrent Congressional Budget Oceprojecons, in 2038, when about 21percent of our populaon will be olderthan 65, we would spend 14 percentof Gross Domesc Product (GDP, allthe goods and services produced inthe economy) on Social Security andMedicare.

But using the argument that SocialSecurity and Medicare will become arising percent of GDP is irrelevant. Ifthe government gets totally out ofthe business of Social Security andMedicare, and the elderly paid outof pocket for everything on their

own, as 21 percent of the populaonthey would sll consume the same14 percent amount of the naonsincome.

The soluon from Republicans, andthose like Pete Peterson (an 87 yearold billionaire) who has personallyinvested his fortune in perpetuangthis fable, is that the governmentneeds to get out of assuring the elderlythat the benets they paid for will behonored to support Social Securityand Medicare.

The smart people in the Washingtonelite think we should compromise bylowering the lifestyle of the elderly-or as they euphemiscally say slow

the growth of their lifestyle as thepresident has proposed by leng thecosts of living outstrip the benetlevels by reinvenng the formula foradjusng for inaon.

Why do I call this a fable? Because itcreates the evil grandma to scareraonal people to sacrice the elderlywhile ignoring the real culprit behindour economic issues. Since 1997, therichest 5 percent got 284.7 percent ofthe naons income growth so theynow eat up 22.3 percent of the naonsincome. The boom 95 percent lostincome and income share, leaving uswith less money for our rerementand childrens educaon and a lower

share of the naons resources.

Meanwhile the Peterson publicitymachine has frightened us intobelieving that we will all be workingto pay taxes to keep the elderly alive.But their fascinaon with the growingnancial burden of seniors doesntextend to the bigger problem ofgrowing income inequality. Inequalityworsened by connued lowering ofreal wages and less rerement securityfor the 95 percent of us, higher CEOpay for corporate execuves, biggerprots for mulnaonal corporaons

and more money to Wall Streetspeculators. Lets also be clear thatfuture seniors Peterson wants us tofear are currently around 40 years

old and living through a nightmare ofan economy. Todays 40-year-old sawone of the lowest median incomegrowths over a decade. They alsohave inadequate rerement savings,so except for Social Security, they facea very uncertain future.

Rather than sacrice current 30 and40-year-olds to save the rich, we needto move away from fables to solvingreal economic problems. The realgoverning challenge is how to governin an age of rapidly growing inequality.Rather than fear the elderly eang uptoo much resources, we need to fearaccepng story lines that reinforce thecurrent path of growing inequality.

We need to look at policies from theperspecve of what our naon needsrst, and the best policy designs toachieve those goals, rather than whatthe rich will accept. Because thetea party and the shutdown of thegovernment and the threatening ofthe United States standing tells us therich are too greedy to accept anythingless than more sacrice from the restof us.

Follow Spriggs on Twier: @WSpriggs.

The Fable of the Long Term Federal Budget Crisis

OPINION/EDITORIAL The views expressed on our opinion pages are those of the author and do notnecessarily represent the position or viewpoint of MRMG or CNY Vision

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