
{"id":1601,"date":"2008-01-09T15:39:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/01\/09\/school-brief-achievement-gap\/"},"modified":"2008-01-09T15:39:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-09T23:39:54","slug":"school-brief-achievement-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/01\/09\/school-brief-achievement-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"School Brief: Achievement gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance leaders are calling for change and improved achievement for black students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools.<\/p>\n<p>Group leaders, community members and school officials met Monday at St. Joseph CME Church to discuss the achievement gap between black and white students. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Prior to the meeting, the groups distributed a report card to school officials outlining failures in 11 categories, including eliminating the minority achievement gap, decreasing the dropout rate of black students and more.<\/p>\n<p>According to Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools, about 44 percent of black elementary school students passed both reading and math End of Grade tests, compared with 93 percent of white elementary school students.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Gene Hatley, pastor of Barbee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chapel Baptist Church and host of the meeting, announced the launch of Barbee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Chapel Harvest Word Community Resource and Enrichment Centers, a program geared toward bringing volunteer tutors, computers and other academic resources to children who need them. The program will start Feb. 1.<\/p>\n<p>In a Monday newsletter to district educators, Superintendent Neil Pedersen wrote, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153With the talent of our staff and the resources available to our students, we can and should do better.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Pedersen said the district has slowly worked toward closing the achievement gap, but a recent revision and rescaling of the math test to a higher standard created a new gap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP and Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance leaders are calling for change and improved achievement for black students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools. Group leaders, community members and school officials met Monday at St. Joseph CME Church to discuss the achievement gap between black and white students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}