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CAC Audited SEPT. 26 – OCT. 2, 2013
INSIDE OPINION
Vol. 84 No. 26 COMPLIMENTARY
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Low-income health care nears deadline State awaits extension of Gateway – or Medicaid expansion By Sandra Jordan Of The St. Louis American
Your child is our child A growing number of us seem to be unaware that upon enrollment in school, our entire family becomes part of a group.
On the eve of the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace opening on October 1, St. Louis-area health care providers and consumers await word on whether Missouri’s Gateway to Better Health Demonstration Project will be extended past its initial end date on
December 30. The extension by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would continue enrollment and outpatient coverage for lower-income residents for a period, offering a reprieve while the Republican supermajority in the Missouri Legislature is pressured to approve See DEADLINE, A7
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Nathaniel Murdock, MD and Angela L. Brown, MD discuss the looming crisis in health care for the poor in Missouri at a St. Louis Safety Net Community Meeting.
Chancellor Dorsey restricts ‘extra pay’
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BUSINESS
CCS kicks off 2013 campaign Newberrys seek 1,000 African Americans to donate $1,000 to the United Way.
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Some faculty oppose her fiscal restraint on overload pay and ‘double dipping’
BUSINESS
By Rebecca S. Rivas Of The St. Louis American
Diversity Initiative graduates 7th class The fellows began the yearlong leadership program last September, and every month they explored topics of diversity and inclusion.
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SPORTS Photo by Wiley Price
Not Miller time Murky details emerge on the six-game doping suspension imposed on Von Miller, the Denver Broncos Pro Bowl linebacker, for failing an off-season drug test.
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Tickled ‘Pinx’ Students from the Pinx Dance Academy show their moves onstage during the Dancing in the Streets Festival held Saturday in Grand Center.
Allegedly under pressure from a group of angry faculty members, the St. Louis Community College Board of Trustees voted in July not to extend Chancellor Myrtle E.B. Dorsey’s contract past June 2014. Local media gave plenty of attention to faculty members who sharply criticized Dorsey’s handling of a professional development day and a horrific student assault on the Meramec campus. Yet, money was completely absent from the public conversation. In fact, these opposing faculty members first started rallySt. Louis ing together when Dorsey Community questioned the college’s overCollege load-pay procedure. Overload Chancellor pay is the amount of money Myrtle E.B. that faculty members earn Dorsey above their base pay for teaching extra classes or taking on extra projects. The normal teaching load for full-time faculty at the college is 15 credit hours per semester or 30 credit hours per academic year, according to colSee DORSEY, A7
Fighting for social justice at Parkway Charlotte Ijei pushes West County district to ‘honor all voices’ By Chris King Of The St. Louis American Charlotte V. Ijei has been working on what is now called “diversity” in the Parkway School District since it was called “educational equity” and “pluralism,” but for her it boils down to something with a little more edge: Ijei insists her work is based in social justice. She came to the district in 1996 as a college counselor at Parkway North High School, which participates in the Voluntary School Transfer (VST)
program. She encountered a percent Hispanic and 3.7 district that had diversity, percent multiracial. When she was new to but did not know what to Parkway, she thought the do with it. “I noticed we lack of diversity among had diversity, yet the AP administrators, faculty and honors courses were all staff might play a role in the white and the fundamentals district’s apparent achievecourses were all black,” Ijei ment gap. “Not many peosaid. ple in Parkway looked like Today, Parkway’s 17,456 me,” Ijei said. “I was the students are 68.1 percent only counselor of color.” white, 15.2 percent African- Charlotte V. Ijei She said the achievement American (of which 7.3 gap was based, in part, on percent participate in the an expectation gap. “A lot of AfricanVST program), 10.9 percent Asian, 3
“We wanted to make sure we looked at internalized oppression and white privilege.” – Charlotte V. Ijei
American students were not being told they could go to college,” Ijei said. “I had black students tell me they didn’t need to see me because ‘I’m not going to college.’” At that point, Ijei started on what See IJEI, A6