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LOCALRaise the Age NY Campaign Calls on Gov. Cuomo to Treat Youth Like YouthBy Delani Weaver

New York and North Carolina are theonly two states in the naon that sll

charge 16- and 17-year-olds as adultsfor crimes. An esmated 50,000 16-and 17-year-olds are arrested in NewYork each year, whether for a felonyor misdemeanor, and once theyrearrested they are prosecuted as adults.

If they are found guilty and sentenced,theyre sent to adult correconalfacilies.

A press conference was heldWednesday morning at the Centerfor Youth on Monroe Ave., whereseveral city of Rochester supportersof the Raise the Age NY campaigncalled on Gov. Andrew Cuomo andother legislators to change the age of

children who are charged as adults to18 when a crime is commied.

The Childrens Defense Fund of NewYork is leading the eorts. Therewere several speakers at the event,including The Childrens Agendaspresident and chief child advocateDr. Je Kaczorowski, Carlos Garcia,execuve director of Partners inRestorave Iniaves, Colin OMalley,organizing director of Metro Jusce,Melanie Hartzog, execuve director ofChildrens Defense Fund of New York,and George Moses, execuve directorof North East Area Development Inc.

City Councilmember and execuve

director of the Center for Youth ElaineSpaull was also one of the speakers atthe press conference, an event thatwas aended by over 50 supporters.

We have been trying very hard toconvince people across the state thatNew York is only one of two statesacross this country that sll prosecutes16- and 17-year-olds as adults, nomaer what the crime, Spaull said. Itcould be shopliing or it could be rstme possession, it could be criminalmischief. Whatever it is, they wouldbe prosecuted as adults and possibly,more than likely, if they did have togo to jail they would be in an adultfacility.

Approximately three out of every fourarrests of juveniles, which account

for 75.3 percent of arrests overall,are for misdemeanors. In the city ofRochester, 2,245 16- and 17-year-oldswere arrested in 2010 alone, 88.1

percent for misdemeanors and non-violent oenses.

According to campaign advocates,placing young teenagers into adultfacilies leads them to commit newand more serious crimes once they arereleased more oen than those whoare kept within the juvenile juscesystem.

In the past twenty years, we havebecome afraid of our own children,believing that locking them up is thebest response, said Spaull. Now, werealize that we have created a systemthat can change the course of a youngpersons life, reduce their opons

and set them on a path of furtherinvolvement with the criminal juscesystem that we certainly did not intend.Age-appropriate intervenons willserve our youth and our communitymuch beer.

The campaign is stressing to thegovernor and legislators that the adultlegal system fails to provide childrenand teenagers with the eecveintervenons and services to whichthey are most responsive.Children placed in adult facilies aresubject to being vicms of violenceand denied the treatment to redirectthem, ocials said.

Studies show that youth in adultprisons are twice as likely to reportbeing beaten by sta, and 50 percentmore likely to be aacked with aweapon than children placed in youthfacilies. Young people are also 36mes more likely to commit suicidein an adult facility than in a juvenilefacility.

The community here in Rochester andaround the region recognizes that 16-and 17-year-olds lack the cognive andemoonal maturity needed to legallypurchase alcohol; vote; get married; oreven get a taoo, said Angelo Pinto,Raise the Age campaign manager atthe Correconal Associaon of New

York. Yet, our state allows these sameyoung people to be quesoned bythe police without parental consent,

incarcerated alongside adults in adultjails and prisons, and permanentlysgmazed with the mark of a criminalconvicon. It is me to do what worksfor both young people and publicsafety: Treat youth like youth, andraise the age of criminal responsibilityin New York.

Spaull said that Monroe CountyDistrict Aorney Sandra Doorley is insupport of the call for change, but hassome concerns.

Shes apprehensive about the ideafor young adults who are violentoenders, Spaul said. For example,if you have a 15-year-old like Michael

Pilato, who started a re on purpose,as an arsonist, and it killed three ofhis siblings and his father, shes notinterested in having that person betreated as a child. So with non-violentoenses, shes totally in agreement.Were more focused on the age of theperson rather than the crime, but weunderstand that a violent oense isquite dierent than a misdemeanor ora lower-level felony.

The original intent of our criminaljusce system was not solely topunish, but to transform andrehabilitate oenders while protecngthe community from harm, Doorleysaid. Children entering that system,

however, can be crippled by theexperience, re-entering society scarredand alienated, posing a greater threat

to the community than they wereprior to their original oense. Anyproposed changes to current law willrequire the careful scruny of thoseof us involved in law enforcement aswell as all New Yorkers, but I applaudthe Childrens Defense Fund and mycolleague Kathleen Rice for taking upthis cause and beginning the discussionsurrounding this important issue.

Kyle Chambers is a formerly-incarcerated young man fromRochester who commied a crime,was charged as an adult and servedme in an adult facility. Chambersrecently graduated from the Centerfor Youths New Beginning school

program, is employed and plans toaend college in the winter semester.

As a 16-year-old, surrounded by grownmen in a locked facility, with no way todefend myself, and knowing that thesemen could seriously hurt me, thatwas a nightmare and something youcan never imagine, he stated. Evenworse than you see on television.Serving me in an adult facility was alife-threatening experience. There wasno jusce. I didnt know myself when Igot out. I was frightened and angry. IfI had not found the Center for Youth,I would likely be incarcerated or deadnow. Being incarcerated at the age of16 almost ended my life.

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New Contract Give Teachers and Schools More FlexibilityRochester City School District teacherswill be geng raises and schoolswill have more wiggle room fornegoaons in the terms for special

academic programs aer a new two-year contract was signed by the schoolboard.

We wanted to give schools theopportunity to tailor the school to theneeds of the students without beggingfor permission, said RochesterTeachers Associaon President AdamUrbanski. This is more autonomy andmore exibility than schools have inother districts in America.

The board voted Tuesday night,approving the contract 5-1. Thecontract will expire in June of 2015.

There will be a 3.2 percent pay raise,according to the signed contract forthe RCSDs 3,100 teachers, including

standard step increases built intoteachers contracts. The athleccoaches spend will be raised by$500, making the pay equal to that ofsome suburban districts.

In addion, contract provision changescan now be made by individualschools, excluding salary, benets anddue process rights which will allowthem to change school leadership, addspecialized programs or lengthen theschool day.

Urbanski said that could open thedoor for a teacher-led school, where

the ulmate decision is made by theteachers rather than a principal makingall the decisions for the teachers.

The contract will have changes for thestudents as well. Early dismissals onWednesdays will be eliminated, 300hours of instrucon me will be addedto ve schools, 200 hours will be addedto 13 schools and two schools willhave exible scheduling. The numberof hours for those two schools has notbeen determined.

A full week of instrucon me overthe school year is the result of theaddional class me.

Superintendent Bolgen Vargas saidthe contract connues the stable,

eecve working relaonship withteachers who are the front lines of ourrelentless focus on improving studentachievement.

Longme board member CynthiaEllio opposed the contract, stangthat she believed the board shouldvetaken more me to consider thecontract for savings.

I gured it was an opportunity tocome up with a fresh contract andreally look at the issues that are facingthe district and that our parents areconcerned with, Ellio said. Thiscontract and contracts we have donein the past have given too muchcontrol to the union.

By Delani Weaver

Rochester City School District (RCSD)had the lowest graduaon rate andthe lowest state test scores than anyother school district in the state.The upcoming school board eleconin November will one of the mostimportant school board elecons in

recent years.

The Greater Rochester ParentLeadership Training will be sponsoringa forum in partnership with The Leagueof Women Voters to make sure that theRochester community is well informedbefore casng their votes. The forumwill be at the Downtown Presbyterian

Church on Fitzhugh Street, October 23from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The candidates for school board willbe present to inform the communityabout whats going on with the schooldistrict and address any quesonsor concerns aendees may have.Candidates will explain what a school

board does, the roles and dues ofeach person involved and the soluonsthat they propose for the RCSD issuesand shortcomings.

Aendees will need to register byphone or email by October 20 andchildcare will be available.

Parent Leadership Group and League of Women VotersPartner to Introduce Rochester School Board Candidates to Voters


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The foundaon of Federal Student Aid, awarded toeligible undergraduate students working towardtheir rst bachelors degree. Students eligibility isbased on the Expected Family Contribuon (EFC) asit was calculated from informaon provided on the

Free Applicaon For Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).Students with lower EFCs have greater nancialneed. Thus, the neediest students are eligible forlarger Federal Pell Grants. Conversely, as studentsEFCs increase, there is less nancial need, and theaward amount of the Federal Pell Grant decreases.The amount of the Federal Pell Grant may beprorated based on a students enrollment status(full-me, part-me, full academic year aendanceor less). Unlike many other types of aid, studentswho are enrolled less than half-me may be eligibleto receive a Federal Pell Grant. The maximumFederal Pell Grant award amount is $5,550 and the

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APTS is a grant program funded by New YorkState and is available to matriculated, part-me,undergraduate students who meet certain eligibilityrequirements. Generally, to be eligible to receiveAPTS a student must:

Be working toward an undergraduate degree as apart-me student taking a minimum of three (3), butless than twelve (12) semester credit hours;Be a resident of New York State;Be either a US cizen, permanent resident alien, orrefugee;Meet the income limits (taxable income less than$50,550 for a dependent student or an independentstudent with dependents. Taxable income lessthan $34,250 for an independent student without

dependents);Not have exhausted Tuion Assistance Programeligibility;Have a tuion charge of at least $100 per year (aeremployee reimbursements and related grants);Not be in default of a Federal Direct Staord Loan orFederal Family Educaon

Loan;Must have a GPA of at least 2.0; andSubmit all documentaon by the published deadline.

Applicaons for APTS are available in the nancial

aid oce and online during the month of Augustand are generally due six weeks into the semesterfor which you are applying. APTS is not available forthe summer semester.

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ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) _ The Universityof Rochester says it will spend $50million on a new Instute for DataScience.

The university in western New Yorkannounced plans Friday to construct anew building for the instute and hire

up to 20 faculty experts in the eld.

University President Joel Seligmansays data science is the top priority inthe universitys ve-year strategic planadopted by the board of trustees lastweek.

Data science combines analyctechniques with improving computercapabilies to extract usefulinformaon from the enormousamounts of data created every day.

Henry Katz, chair of the computerscience department, says Rochester

researchers are already using datascience to do things like predict thespread of infecous disease, trackthe popularity of polical ideas andunderstand consumer preferences.

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On-campus residency is required.

Deans Scholar-in-ResidenceIncoming freshmen are eligible forthis award, valued at $9,000 overfour years, if they are in the top 25%of their class and have a 90 or higher

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Jerome Underwood Says 3000 Kids Outof School Every day is Unacceptable

By Delani Weaver

There are 30,000 students currentlyenrolled in the Rochester City SchoolDistrict (RCSD). Every day, there arethousands of students who dont go toschool. Although that may not seemlike huge issue when compared to30,000 students, however, when youlook at RCSDs terribly low exams scoresand graduaon rates, the quesonis how much does actually going toschool and being in class account for

these results, or lack thereof.

Jerome Underwood, the districtssenior director for Youth Developmentand Family Services is pushing aniniave to get kids in school and keepthem in school.

Its a big issue for us. Last year, wehad an improvement last year in whatwe call average daily aendance.We went from, in 2011-2012, 87.7percent average daily aendance

to 89.4 percent. Thats where weended the school year, last year. Nowwith a 30,000 student enrollment, ifwere at 89.4 percent, that leaves 11percent not at school, thats whereyoull hear me say, theres 3000 kidswho dont come to school every day.Its an astonishing number, its anunacceptable place to be.

Underwood said there have beenseveral studies showing howabsenteeism can damage theprobability of a student graduangon me or at all. The districts goal isto have average daily aendance at 95

percent.

Its not reasonable thinking thateveryones going to be there everyday, Underwood. Somemes wedont want kids at school because theyare ill and they are contagious. Our goalis to have average daily aendanceat 95 percent. Right now, we haveseveral elementary schools above the90 percent average. High school is inthe 80s. Its a very challenging goalbut were seng high expectaons

because we know that is one of theprimary things thats going to aid andimprove student achievement.

Absenteeism is analyzed by twocategories. Chronic absenteeismis described as a student missing10 percent of school, excused orunexcused. Severe absenteeism ishaving missed 20 percent of school,excused or unexcused. This does notinclude holidays, severe weather daysor district mandated school days o.

Theres, on average, 180 school days.Missing 10 percent of that 180 days is

18 days. 10 months out of the schoolyear, prey much youve missedtwo days a month. Thats chronicabsenteeism. If you miss 20 days ofschool, thats a month of school. If youmiss ten percent of school or more,the odds of you graduang on me godown signicantly.

According to Underwoods research, inthe 2012-2013 school year, over 14,000students that missed 10 days or more,whether excused or unexcused. 7,000students missed 20 days or more.

Its very very hard to catch up. Sotheres a direct correlaon betweenthat and achievement. Thats why

were trying to have every student inschool, every day. We have to get theawareness out there.

Underwood said these are not justhigh school students that account forthese high numbers. Its across theboard. We have signicant numbersof our elementary school kids fromkindergarten, rst, second, thirdand fourth grade who are in thatpopulaon. For me, if you in one ofthose grades I just menoned, yourenot being truant. Theres an adultissue, thats not allowing our studentsto come to school.

Its a reach out to the parents. Our

families, unfortunately, face somesignicant challenges as far as weknow. There are issues that theyrefacing that are rendering some, notall, but some of the adults in the homeparalyzed.

Domesc abuse, drug and alcoholabuse, mental health issues,incarceraon and homelessness arejust a few of the reasons that accountfor why so many children are missingevery day from school, according toUnderwood. He and his team aretrying to connect the families that arehaving problems with the agenciesthat are available to provide the helpthey need.

The adults are facing these issues andit has a trickledown eect on the kids.If were geng evicted tomorrow andIm running around trying to gure

out where were going to live, its ahighly likely that my focus isnt goingto be geng my children to school. Sowhat were doing with our aendanceiniave, we are working much closerwith a lot of the agencies in Rochester.Agencies such as Rochester HousingAuthority, Alternaves for BaeredWomen, United Way, Urban League,Acon for a Beer Community, Boys& Girls Club, Ibero and Big Brother, BigSisters.

Were going out knocking on doorslooking for kids. When those doorsopen were hearing a number of

things that are largely adult issues.What we want to do, we being theschool district, we want to be able torefer our families to whichever agencytheir story aligns with so we can saylisten, we want you to send lileJerome to school so he can connueto be educated, while simultaneouslydealing with whatever the issue is.

Underwood said its me to go beyondthe schools and homes to get theword out that children need to be inschool. Hes now reaching out to thelocal churches, urging them to havean Educaon Sunday. He said theconversaon can be had anywhere, aslong as its had.

We need to spread that word. Itsreally not acceptable for so many ofour children to not be in school. Wewant to do some outreach to ourchurches to have that conversaon onthe pulpit about aendance. Churchleaders can express the importanceof having kids in school every day. Itsa dicult conversaon somemesbecause thats on us, the adults thatlive in this community. It could be ata barbershop or a nail shop. If youhave children come in at 11 oclockin the morning, maybe you shouldencourage them to come back whenschool is done.

It take a village to raise a child is theconcept behind Underwoods eorts.He said the district cannot keepchildren coming to school every dayon their own. It will take the district,parents, the community and theagencies.

With social services, wereencouraging them and they haveagreed to have that conversaon withfamilies as they interact with them.For example, if I go to the RochesterHousing Authority, someone asks,how many kids do have in the schooldistrict? How is their aendance? Justhave the conversaon.

The district conducts monthlyaendance blitzes where sta andcommunity volunteers visit dierenthomes asking parents and guardianswhy their student isnt in school.

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RCSD Youth Development DirectorSays 3300 Kids Out of School Every day is Unacceptable


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Underwood said the focus is onelementary and middle schools thathave the poorest aendance records.

We, the school district areaccountable for these students. Some

of them have moved away, movedout of state, but they didnt tell us.In order for us to remove them fromour records, so to speak, we have tohave valid documentaon of theirenrollment in another school district.So the paperwork has to catch up.Im not saying that is the case for allof the missing students, but some. Imtalking to principals about the absentstudents and the no show students(students who have been to school allyear). Im asking, how many studentsarent in school, have you talked totheir parents. Home visits are veryimportant to try to get to the rootcause of absenteeism. For chronic orsevere absenteeism, Im asking, have

you been to that house, have you beenin that house?

While elementary and middle schoolsabsenteeism can be regarded as anadult issue, the same may or may notbe true with highschoolers.

Its never all of nothing because weknow that for some of our high schoolstudents are taking care of themselveswhen mom or dad or guardian leaveshome for work before the studentleaves for school, so they sort of

have some independence. In some

instances, some of our students aremaking bad decisions, however notall of our students are making baddecisions, we know that.

When asked whether or not suburbanschool districts have beer aendancethan RCSD, Underwood said yes. Whenasked why, he had this to say:

I dont have specic numbers butunequivocally yes. The number ofstudents that we have missing everyday, is almost double the number of

enrollment at East Rochester High

School, East Rochester District. Wereso large. But the number of theabsenteeism that we is much higherand were convinced that the parentalinvolvement and the socio-economicchallenges that our families face arethe two primary reasons why. Issuesthat most suburban school districtsdont face.

Underwood said the school districthas daily data that gives principalsand Underwood himself, the detailsof absenteeism, right down to the

student that is absent.

We have great data. Daily data thatgives us a good idea of what ouraendance is. But data is only good ifyou do something with it. We use thisdata to track our student enrollmentand aendance. At the end of theday, we know that a good and propereducaon can change the outcome ofsomeones life immensely. We knowthis. But they have to be in school forthat to happen.

Graph as of so far this year. Red = less than 90% Green = 90% - 92.9 % Yellow = 93% & above


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NEW YORK (AP) _ Papers from the Rev.

Marn Luther King Jr., including a pagefrom his ``I Have a Dream speech,were being auconed in New York onThursday.

The papers were being sold by MaudeBallou, 88, who worked as Kingssecretary from 1955 to 1960, throughthe New York oce of Texas-basedHeritage Aucons.

Some of the more than 100 items areso unusual that its dicult to put avalue on them, said Sandra Palomino,director of historical manuscripts forHeritage Aucons.

``Were really relying on leng the

market decide what the value is goingto be, Palomino said.

The materials include a handwrienleer King sent to Ballou while touringIndia in 1959 to learn more aboutMahatma Gandhis campaign of

nonviolent resistance.

Another item is a typed nal pageof Kings ``I Have a Dream speech,according to the aucon house.The page was sent to Ballou onJan. 31, 1968, weeks before Kingwas assassinated, by Lillie Hunter,bookkeeper for the Southern ChrisanLeadership Conference.

Kings estate sued the secretarys son,Howard Ballou, in U.S. District Court inJackson, Miss., in 2011 in a bid to takepossession of the items. U.S. DistrictJudge Tom Lee dismissed the lawsuitin March, saying there was nothing tocontradict Maude Ballous tesmonythat King gave her the material and that

the statute of limitaons had passed.The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appealsin New Orleans upheld the decisionbased on the statute of limitaons.

Kings estate, operated as a privatecompany by his children, is known

to ght for control of the King brand.Harry Belafonte sued the estate thisweek in Manhaan federal court overthe fate of three documents he tried tosell at aucon.

Ballou, of Ridgeland, Miss., told TheAssociated Press last month that selling

her collecon was biersweet. Shesaid a poron of the proceeds wouldbe used to establish an educaon fundat Alabama State University.

Martin Luther King papers to be auctioned in NYC

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Any supplemental forms requested byour oce should be submied by May1. Student applicants meeng thisdeadline should have their nancialaid package prior to the admissionsdeposit deadline or before summerschool begins. Applicaons or formsled aer these deadlines will connueto be processed on a rst-come, rst-served basis unl funds are exhausted.

New York State Applicaon for theTuion Assistance Program:

If you are a New York state resident, youare eligible to le the TAP applicaon if

you listed a New York school on yourFAFSA.

The applicaon link is available aeryou submit the FAFSA. If you miss thelink, you may either go to the TAP onthe Web or wait for the applicaon tobe mailed.The deadline for TAP is May 1 of theacademic year for which aid is sought(Example: for 2009-2010, applicaondeadline is May 1, 2010).

Proof of high school graduaonrequirement:

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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) _ New YorkEducaon Commissioner John King Jr.has announced a series of 12 forumson the new Common Core learningstandards and other reforms.

King announced the forums Friday.Hes faced cricism since an earlier

decision to cancel a slate of PTA-arranged appearances aer one inPoughkeepsie last week devolved intoa shoung match.

King says future forums will includeBoard of Regents members and willbe moderated by state legislators in

school districts around the state.

The rst will be in Albany Oct. 24.

Kings been cricized all week by

parents, teachers and lawmakersfor canceling the rst forums. Theywere meant to address the states

implementaon of the more dicultlearning standards and the statescontroversial decision to immediatelyuse them as the basis for standardizedtests.

New slate of NY education forums scheduled

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Study: 15 percent of US youth out of school, workBy PHILIP ELLIOTT

WASHINGTON (AP) Almost 6 millionyoung 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 their

communies.

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 45

states 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, college

graduaon rates, income inequalityand public safety among them and

idened 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 capitalin 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 equipment

repair 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 forjobs.

And its not as though the challengesemerge from nowhere. Quality earlychildhood programs help studentsfrom poor families overcome societalhurdles, and on-me high school

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

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needs 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.

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Lets facesome truthfor a change.Many of ourneighborhoodsare plagued withstreet-level drugdealers whohave taken overhouses, blocks,

corners and,in some cases,

whole streets. In my opinion, they areno more than home-grown terrorists,and many neighbors are at a loss whenit comes to what can be done aboutthem.

Personally, I dont believe thateradicang drugs from our communityis ever going to happen, totally. Thereis too much supply and demand.Drugs are not new; however, its thedisrespecul uncaring and threateningway they are being sold that shouldnot be tolerated.

I think the so-called war on drugs is afarce, and only seems to target brownand black people. The so-called wartends to legimize why so many brownand black men are incarcerated andaway from their families and children.

But, before someone gets it twistedand says Gloria supports drugs being in

our community, let me set the recordstraight. I dont support drugs, or thepeople who sell that kind of death inour community; but I do understandwhy selling drugs becomes an oponfor those who have no educaon.They may have dropped out of schoolor spent enough me in prison to beconvinced this way of life is acceptable.

What I do support are peoplewith soluons who are pungtheir feet in moon, not just theirmouths. Recently, CouncilmanAdam McFadden, chairman of thePublic Safety Commiee, proposed

legislaon that has the potenal toput a dent in the areas where drugsare sold in our community.

As a community, we need to supporthis eorts. It is a good beginning. It isan indicaon that he is not just singon his hands or wring and speakingabout the problem. He actually wrotelegislaon that can help remove

these drug-dealing terrorists from ourneighborhoods. Drugs are not new.Drugs have been around since thebeginning of me. The thing that isnew, however, is the blatant disrespectfamilies and children have been shownby the perpetrators who think theyhave a right to change the lifestyles ofthose living near or in their marketarea.

These terrorists insll fear, and manypeople are afraid to leave theirhomes at certain mes of the day ornight. Drug dealers have no problemincreasing trac, blocking trac or

threatening those who may eyeballthem.

So, the legislaon Adam proposes isa good thing. But, what disturbs megreatly is how it has been receivedby naysayers; those crics who havemore mouth than anything but donothing to solve the problem.

Some folks sit on their rusty, dustybehinds waing for others to takeacon, just so they can tear it up. Somewalk around pounding their chests,dressed in suits and es, carryingbriefcases; and they are impressedwith their educaon and job tles, butdo absolutely nothing to improve thecommunity.

I have always believed that peoplewho dont know how to build anythingare always tearing something down.That is not the case with my embaledsurrogate son Adam McFadden. He hascome far, is not afraid to get his hands

The views expressed on our opinion pages are thoseof the author and do not necessarily represent the

position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.OPINION/EDITORIAL

strAIgHtno cHaseR

GLORIA WINSTON AL-SARAG


sOMEtHIng To THInK aBoUT

C. MICHAEL VAUGHN

Over the pastseveral weeksthere had beentalk of thea p p r o a c h i n gscal cli thatwas loomingover oureconomy. Therehad been talkback and forth,

and people wereblaming each

other. And then, low and behold, ourpresident and Congress came up witha worthless plan at the eleventh hour!

I do hope that those following whatwas going on were not happy with theoutcome. Because whether or not youbelieve in the side that says, Lets taxthose who have earned their moneylegally the most, or the other sidethat says, Lets cut the tremendousamount of spending, our governmenthas failed us.

Why do I say they failed us? It isbecause they did not solve theproblem. They just pushed the rockdown the road for two more monthsso that they can come and use theirrhetoric again, and get the country inan unnecessary uproar.

What has happened in the governingof our naon is that people are afraidto do what is right. However, lets lookat the lessons we can learn in what hasbeen done and connues to be done.

Unfortunately, the lesson to belearned from this president and thisCongress is what not to do. Anyonewho is running a home and/or raisingchildren can look at our naonalleaders and see what not to do if theywant to be successful.

Our naon is being governed horriblyby an inept president and an ineptCongress. Good leaders dont blameeveryone; good leaders try to makea dierence and are willing to tacklehard problems.

I am proud that we have a blackpresident, but I would not tell any ofmy children to follow the exampleBarack Obama sets. He does not lead.And, in the last elecon, he showedthat he has bought into the vicmmentality that plagues our country.He kept blaming a man for his failureswho had not been president for fouryears. That is no way to lead!

Congress refuses to lead in that theydo not put forward ideas that willhelp move our country forward. They

squabble and talk down to each otherwhile our naon and its welfare hangin the balance. In Congress, there aresome of the most selsh people youmay want to meet. They can only bedescribed as selsh when they lookout for their own interests insteadof the interests of those they wereelected to represent.

What I would teach my children isto look at our president, look at ourCongress, and do all they can to neverallow power and special interests tocompromise their core beliefs. I wouldtell them to never allow their personalinterests to outweigh the interests ofthe people they are leading. I learnedfrom an early age what self-sacricemeant. My mom would put herself lastin order to ensure that her childrenwere taken care of and had what theyneeded. She did not dress in the nestclothes or drive the nest vehicle, shetook care of those that were in hercare rst and then took care of herselflater. That is the lesson that needs tobe taught today.

People have goen so selsh; they donot care what happens to the otherguy. They probably say to themselves,As long as I am taken care of; whocares about you? That is the mentalitythat our president and Congress have

taken on for many years, and it showsa tremendous lack of leadership forthe people of America.

People would have much more respectfor a polician that was willing to dowhat was right, even if it meant thathe or she would not get re-elected.Geng re-elected is selsh; doingwhat is right is pung the people yourepresent rst.

So, the lesson to be learned from thelack of leadership we see from ourpresident and Congress is, one shouldnot be selsh in order to get the rightthings done. Do what is needed inorder to solve the enre problem, donot try band aid approaches thathave no true lasng value.

Be willing to make the hard decisions,even if it means that you will not bewell-liked. There are many lessons tolearn, we just have to put the word notin front of what we see our naonalleaders doing.

If you would like to contact me, pleaseemail me at [email protected]

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dirty, and is going father, unbeknownstto many in this community.

At a recent luncheon where themayor of Tuskegee, Ala. was keynotespeaker, to the surprise of many in theaudience, he paid homage to Adamby announcing his presidency with anaonal organizaon.

Some of those who are ignorantare probable saying, So what? andno doubt not understanding thesignicance and/or the impact thiscould have on our community as awhole.

When I asked Adam to tell me moreabout the organizaon, and the ocehe had been elected to, he wrote methe following (theres no sense in mere-invenng any wheels):Its the Naonal Black Caucus of LocalElected Ocials, which is under theumbrella of the Naonal League ofCies.The Naonal League of Cies isthe naons oldest and largestorganizaon devoted to strengtheningand promong cies as centersof opportunity, leadership andgovernance. NLC is a resource andworks as an advocate for 19,000 cies,towns and villages by represenngmore than 218 million Americans.It provides a powerful network for

informaon-sharing and for speakingon behalf of Americas cies inWashington, D.C., and all state capitals.NBC-LEO is an NLC constuencygroup that was founded in 1970.Its mission is to provide African-American municipal ocials andtheir colleagues with forums to shareideas; discussion groups to developstrategies for improving municipalgovernance; debates on policy issues;and programs that contribute to thesuccess of Americas cies and towns.Through a citys membership to NLC,NBC-LEO oers its individual membersopportunies to get involved in theoverall work of NLC through severalvenues, such as serving on the NLCBoard of Directors, Advisory Council,standing commiees, policy/advocacysteering commiees and task forces.When called upon by NLC, NBC-LEO members take part in lobbyingCongress to help obtain funding formunicipal programs, oppose unfundedmandates and the pre-empon of localauthority, or prevent burdensomeregulaons.We are considered to be the big brotherorganizaon to the CongressionalBlack Caucus because our charter wasused to help form the CBC.Mayor Ford was saying NBC-LEO isa member of the Naonal PolicyAlliance, which is the organizaonthat advises the president on issues

as it pertains to our community. Thatmeans, as president, I get to sit withthe president of the U.S. and talkissues over the next year, also help himpush his agenda to our communies.We are really working to bring othercountries with resources to the tablein order to invest in our community.I am currently creang a relaonshipwith four countries, which will bringinvestment directly to the blackcommunity (Rochester).

What should be evident is the fact thatAdam is not only soluon-oriented, buthas stepped quietly into the naonalarena, where addional resources tohelp our community also exist.He has come a mighty-long way, andshould be embraced more so thancricized, especially by those who areclueless as to how he has managed tobecome so respected in communiesbeyond the connes of Rochester.

The views expressed on our opinion pages are thoseof the author and do not necessarily represent the

position or viewpoint of Minority Reporter.OPINION/EDITORIAL

Media Literacyis one of themost crucialskills wecan give ourchildren tonavigate the21st Century.

Few wouldargue thatt r a d i t i o n a lliteracy

reading, wring and arithmec isimportant. But in todays world, ouracademic core curriculum must beaugmented with digital literacy thatteaches children the dual skills of

how to decode and understand digitalmessaging, and how to produce digitalmessaging.

We live much of our lives online. Wepay bills, purchase ckets, securereservaons, play games, apply for jobsand gather informaon electronicallythrough computers, cell phones andtablets. Informaon comes at us 24/7,365 days a year. It is as important thatour children know how to decipherthe authenc and accurate from the

false, and even dangerous messagingdisseminated digitally as it is for themto read, write and do math. Theymust learn how to create their ownelectronic communicaons throughblogs and vlogs, electronic newsleers,video, podcasts, apps, mp3s, gamesand more in order to understandhow words, images and soundare combined to create powerfulmessaging. Its only through learningto create media that they will cometo understand how these tools can bemanipulatedfor persuasive posivemessaging or - in the wrong hands -for misinformaon, manipulaon andpropaganda.

In the classes I teach at the Collegeat Brockport, when I challenge mystudents to tell me something theydidnt learn from media, oen, manyare unable do so. The virtual worldthey are part of, and that will be evenmore prominent in their future, isoen more interesng to them thantheir actual world. In the online world,they can control the variables and theoutcomes that they lack control overin their own lives.

So, if digital communicaons are nowso ubiquitous, why are we not moreacvely leveraging the seducvepower of these technologies to engagestudents in learning and thought? Ifplay is such an essenal componentin developing creavity in children,why are we not harnessing learningthrough this form of play? Rather thanprohibit the use of electronic devices,why not use media such as games andbook apps in the schools to educateour youth in all forms of literacy?This is an area of educaon that mustbe studied further and taken moreseriously.

Through digital media, educators

can create a universe that promotesand encourages expedionary acvelearning. Any topic is ripe for thistreatment, from tradional learning totopics as sensive as those of moralityand ethics. In a virtual universe,students have the opportunity to playout their problems and challengesonline to beer understand theconsequences of their decisions.Could electronic applicaons be usedin conict diusion and resoluon ina school environment? This possibility

merits further study.

If our children are taught to be creatorsrather than only consumers of mediaso they understand its power, theywill have more control over their ownlives. They will understand how toulize it to their own benet and thatof their community, rather than to bemanipulated by it to the benet of theunscrupulous.

Rather than be fearful and suspiciousof this new froner, it is me toembrace and leverage media literacyfor its rich educaonal promise.

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Carvin Eison is General Manager atRCTV and Associate Professor at SUNYCollege at Brockport where he teachesTelevision, Video, Film producon andMedia Literacy. Carvin [email protected](585) 395-5767

Augmenting Traditional Literacy with Media Literacy

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