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SUNDAY

EVERYBODY’S DAY: Chair City holds annual event. 1B

Regional ‘Super’ Angelo Kidd

125th year No. 270

BACK TO SCHOOL: GTCC hosts job training classes. 1B

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MIXED BAG: Wolfpack wins; Deacs, Tar Heels fall. 1D

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BY DAVID NIVENS ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

HIGH POINT – For the first time in years, a superintendent will be roaming the halls regularly in High Point’s public schools. And Angelo Kidd would have it no other way. Kidd, a veteran teacher and administrator who opened his office this summer at 900 English Road, is one of five regional superintendents. Guilford County Schools Superintendent Mo Green appointed Kidd and the others as a way to decentralize district offices. Kidd said he spends just 30 percent of his time in the office. “I want to get out to the schools,” Kidd said. “I think students and the school staff should see me. I think High Point is glad we are here, and I’m glad to be in High Point.” Working with community alliances also is important, Kidd said. Kidd serves on the boards of the Alliance for Workforce Development and United Way of High Point. “We want to form strong partnerships in the community,” Kidd said, “to help provide the best education possible. The result here is to have a better student, a graduate of better quality.” Kidd supervises 24 schools, including High Point Central and Southwest high schools. “That’s as many schools as some districts have,” Kidd said. Kidd agrees with Green that supervisors should move out of central offices in Greensboro to be closer to parents and students. Green used the same organizational plan with the Charlotte-

September 27, 2009

ANGELO KIDD

Childhood: Cincinnati, Ohio, one of seven children Education: Bachelor’s degree from Cumberland College; master’s degree in English and an administrator’s certificate from Ball State University Career: Former principal of Northwest High School; 2001-05, principal at Northeast High; 1997-2001, principal at Southern High; 1995-96, principal at Nathanael Greene Elementary. Teacher for 21 years. Has been an administrator since 1989

SONNY HEDGECOCK | HPE

Angelo Kidd is the regional superintendent for public schools in High Point.

WESTERN REGION

Awards: 1975, a recipient of the National Bicentennial Youth Debates Educator’s Award

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Elementary schools: Fairview, Florence, Johnson Street Global Studies, Kirkman Park, Northwood, Oak Hill, Oak View, Shadybrook and Southwest Middle schools: Johnson Street Global Studis, Ferndale, Southwest and Penn-Griffin High schools: High Point Central, Southwest, Middle College at GTCC-High Point, Penn-Griffin Academies: Academy at High Point Central Alternatives: Dean B. Pruette SCALE Mecklenburg schools. “I took this job as a new challenge, and I have a lot of respect for what the superintendent is trying to do,” Kidd said.

With 21 years of teaching experience, Kidd said he can see things the way teachers do. “I know their challenges and understand what they

Community: Board member of the Alliance for Workforce Development and United Way of Greater High Point

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District attempts onestop service centers. 3A do,” Kidd said, “and the challenges they have day to day.” Green has set the performance bar high for his new regional superintendents. He wants no lowperforming schools and 81 percent of students reading on grade level, up from the mid-50s, by 2012. “It is no secret we have three low-performing schools in the region,” Kidd said. “So just like handling the needs of a family member, more at-

Family: Wife Linda, assistant principal at Page High School; three children and one grandchild

tention will be given to them.” Green placed T.W. Andrews High School in a special enrichment region. “It is possible that schools can move out of that region and others into it,” Kidd said. “It all depends on consistent improving performance.”

INSIDE

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TENOR TALENT: High Point man shares skills. 1E OBITUARIES

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Mary Bailey, 85 Paul Duncan, 87 Wade Jarrett Ruth Moore, 85 Brenda Smith, 58 Linda Stafford, 66

Obituaries, 2B

WEATHER

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A few showers High 82, Low 61 8D

INDEX

Years of fundraising, widespread community support pay off HIGH POINT – Theresa Hitt smiled as she helped her 13-year-old son pull on his dark blue and red Miracle League of High Point Red Sox jersey Saturday morning. Her son, Rinaldo Bacordo, also wore his Red Sox cap as he sat in his wheelchair waiting to play in the inaugural game at the Miracle League Field in the High Point Athletic Complex near Simeon Stadium. Because of his disability, the teenager who attends Ferndale Middle School never before had the opportunity to play a team sport, his mother said. Now through the Miracle League of High Point, Bacordo is part of a

Raquel Cudd is a first-grade assistant teacher at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School in High Point. Cudd, who served as a firstgrade assistant on a part-time basis last year, has two daughters at IHM. Prior to teaching at IHM, she was a lead teacher for three-year-olds in preschool.

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Batter up BY PAUL B. JOHNSON ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER

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Supporters of the Miracle League of High Point, which allows children with mental and physical disabilities to play baseball on a specially designed field, continue to seek donations, coaches, volunteers and players. For more information, call the High Point Parks & Recreation Department at 883-3469 or go online to: www.hpmiracleleague.org team in his favorite sport – baseball. Several hundred people came to the Miracle League Field to witness the first pitches, hits and

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Ma’Keilah Stopher (above) gets the first hit at the Miracle Field, guided by coach Geoff Beaston. At right, Caleb Epling and High Point University baseball coach Craig Cozart get props from the Panther team as Caleb is introduced at the start of the first game at the Miracle Field.

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