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Join the DTH Board Educators Debate Charter Schools Serving UNC students and the University community since 1893 Volume 125, Issue 25 dailytarheel.com Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Of the 28 board members continuing to serve or newly elected... STATE of the 14.29 21.43 percent percent are African-American. are women. BOARD Legislators pick new BOG members By Carina McDermed strengthen our public education system,” he Senior Writer said. “And we look forward to harnessing their leadership and vision in these efforts.” Twelve new members will be intro- Legislators voted to shrink the board duced in the UNC-system Board of from 32 members to 24 by 2018. Governors in July — the majority of whom The twelve new board members are are white and Republican. mostly Republicans, with only Kellie Hunt The N.C. House of Representatives Blue and Wendy Murphy registered as voted April 5 to elect six board members, unaffiliated. Blue, of Robeson County, was joining the Senate’s six picks last month. the only new member that voted in the A quarter of the board’s new members 2016 Democratic primary election. are related to the General Assembly — Madeline Finnegan, the BOG’s studenet including former legislators Leo Daughtry, member, said she’s concerned about the Rob Bryan and Bob Rucho and Randall trend of selecting former state legislators. 32.14 25.00 Ramsey, who lost in the 2015 primaries. “ … The thing that I worry about is the percent percent Rucho, a former N.C. senator represent- trend toward partisanship in the people ing Mecklenburg, had a hand in drawing elected to the board,” she said. “If the new the 2011 Senate districting map. In August, members of the board can put partisanship have a background have a legislative the districts were ruled to be “racial ger- aside and think about the issues, then I’m in education. background. rymanders” and in violation of the Equal really happy to have them there.” Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution. But Finnegan also said the board’s new SOURCE: NORTHCAROLINA.EDU DTH/JOSÉ VALLE Lou Bissette, chairperson of the board, members diversify the universities repre- The N.C. Senate and House of Representatives have each selected six new members to serve on the UNC- said in an email that new members repre- sented within the UNC system. system Board of Governors. The statistics compiled in the above graphic reference members of the Board of sent a wide range of expertise. Governors serving a 2015-19 term along with those twelve new members that have been chosen this year. “The new UNC Strategic Plan seeks to SEE BOG, PAGE 4 Educators debate New code up for debate at Congress ernments and with assistance from viously used by candidates to Tarik Woods presented the Graduate and Professional increase their online presence, a revised edition of the Student Federation. are now prohibited methods of charter schools Woods presented the altered reaching out to voters en masse. Student Code. code to the Rules and Judiciary Unsolicited emails, however, are mote school choice and schools that Committee, sparking diverse still an acceptable form of cam- In his proposed budget, weren’t as restricted by their state’s By Preston Lennon feedback from the committee paigning, except in certain situ- Trump added $168 million rules and regulations so they could Staff Writer members and at times inciting ations where the UNC Board of educate using more experimental arguments. Elections disallows it. to charter school funding. ideas to better serve their students’ Student government isn’t exactly The majority of the changes One of the most contentious needs. starting from scratch — but the to the document are logistical — amendments to the Student Code By Rebecca Ayers The hope was that these innova- books are being rewritten. Along accommodations made to recog- was the setting of a limitation on Senior Writer tive ways to teach students could be with the new constitution that nize the split of the student body the number of registered workers used for traditional public schools as accompanied the arrival of the government into undergraduate a presidential candidate can claim. The conversation surrounding well. Elizabeth Adkins administration, and graduate bodies. The number is set at 30. charter schools has piqued national To enroll in a charter school there a revised Student Code is about to Other changes were enacted Katharine Shriver, recently attention in recent months with is typically a lottery process in which take hold as well. in response to the unprecedented sworn in as Speaker of Student the confirmation of Secretary of students apply to a charter school Tarik Woods, chairperson of the behavior of the student body presi- Congress, argued against the mea- Education Betsy DeVos and her sup- and then are randomly selected for Rules and Judiciary Committee, dent campaigns in the most recent sure. port of them. admittance. wrote the new Student Code along election. “Presumably, people are going North Carolina and other states Alyssa Schwenk, director of with members of the present and Social media outlets GroupMe have been faced with the challenges external relations at the Fordham former undergraduate student gov- and Facebook Messenger, pre- SEE CONGRESS, PAGE 4 that accompany charter schools and Institute, said that the authorizer for the variability of their success. a charter school has a large impact On average, students enrolled on the school’s success. in online charter schools lose the “You see some authorizers who UNC posts 20-run explosion against Gamecocks equivalent of 72 days of learning in oversee charter schools, which are reading and 180 days in math, based then governed by the charter school on a traditional 180-day school year, board, allow really cool and innova- Tuesday’s game marked according to a 2015 report by the tive ideas while also holding the the most runs scored by Center for Research on Education schools accountable to result in Outcomes — amounting to nearly achievement,” Schwenk said. the Tar Heels since 2013. half the expected learning in reading Gill said charter schools make it and no learning in math. possible to try new educational prac- By John Bauman The pattern of weaker academic tices for more effective education. Assistant Sports Editor growth compared to traditional “In my view we need educational public schools was consistent with innovation,” Gill said. “As a society, CHARLOTTE — Head coach students of various backgrounds for 100 years or more, we haven’t Mike Fox looked down at the box and socioeconomic status. The data invested much, charter schools are in score and took in the numbers: 14 was collected from over 100 schools a sense a way to do that.” hits, 10 walks, four doubles, two tri- across the country. Gill said that legislators should be ples and, most importantly, 20 runs Brian Gill, a senior fellow at the worried about the evidence found — the most for a North Carolina Mathematica Policy Research and an within the report, and how students baseball team since 2013. Then, he author of the report, focused on 200 were only getting three to seven glanced at the South Carolina side: online charter schools that served hours of live interaction with their 10 pitchers to get through eight 200,000 students across the country. teachers a week online. innings. He said that there was a mismatch Ann Allen, an associate professor “Yeah,” Fox said. “I didn’t expect between the online programs being of education at Ohio State University, that.” offered and the students’ needs. said there are some great charter But maybe he should have. “The results were very disturbing, schools, but overall charter schools Coming into this game, the Tar Heels and we pointed that out at the time,” haven’t made a large impact in stu- have outscored opponents 88-34 in Gill said. “Again it really looks like it dent accomplishments. the first three innings of ballgames may be the case that online programs The charter movement, Allen this season — and they had scored with only a small live interaction said in an email, is exclusive and has first in 23 of 32 matchups. DTH/TARYN REVOIR between students and teachers — resulted in racial segregation. It was no different on Tuesday, Brian Miller (5) runs in UNC baseball’s 20-5 win over South Carolina. that may work well for certain kinds Charter schools in North Carolina as No. 5 UNC (27-6) scored six of students, particularly self-motivat- originally served a disproportionate runs in the first two innings en Carolina in the team’s fourth at-bat the first inning. He responded with ed students, but a lot of the students population of low-income, African route to a 20-5 win over the No. 11 of the game and didn’t stop the rest a long drive into left center, right that enroll in online charter schools American students. Gamecocks (21-11). of the night. in front of the scoreboard at BB&T are not those students.” A 2015 study done by three Duke “We just kept swinging it,” Fox Third baseman Kyle Datres Ballpark. It was the first Tar Heel The first law creating a charter said. “Just one of those nights.” came up in the cleanup spot with school was passed in 1991 to pro- SEE CHARTER, PAGE 4 The runs began for North the bases loaded in the bottom of SEE BASEBALL, PAGE 4 Join The DTH Board free press Apply at bit.ly/DTHBoard Keep talking that mess that’s fine, but could you walk and talk at the same time? BEYONCÉ 2 Wednesday, April 12, 2017 News The Daily Tar Heel The Daily Tar Heel www.dailytarheel.com FEATURE DOG: DAISY MAE Established 1893 124 years of editorial Office DJ: Jenni loves freedom JANE WESTER EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ‘Whistle’ and Riff Raff [email protected] HANNAH SMOOT By Jenni Ciesielski I probably don’t seem like running sucks at least 30 per- MANAGING EDITOR Swerve Assistant Editor the type of person people cent of the time.
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