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Wednesday, January 23, 2008
NAACP disavows plan to save Roosevelt
Derrick Foward
I just spoke with Derrick Foward, the president of the Dayton NAACP. He said a UD law student named Adam Stone and the group’s treasurer, Creola Reese, and who spoke during and after the Dayton school board Tuesday were not representing the view of the NAACP’s executive committee.
Reese is a member of the executive committee, Foward said. Stone spoke during the public comment portion of Tuesday’s school board meeting and he and Reese spoke with a reporter after the meeting, saying the NAACP was supporting a redevelopment plan for Roosevelt. But Foward said the plan has not been endorsed or discusssed by the group’s executive committee.
Foward said the local NAACP has taken no position on Roosevelt High School and is not endorsing any plan to try to rescue the building. Foward said he was not aware anyone representing the NAACP were attending Tuesday’s school board meeting and only learned of their statements when he read today’s Dayton Daily News. Foward said he has not seen any redevelopment plan for Roosevelt.
Stone went to the microphone during the public comment period of Tuesday’s meeting and asked for a meeting with the board to allow the NAACP, Roosevelt alumni and a group called the Community Justice League to present a proposal to save Roosevelt High School. Afterward I spoke with Stone and Reese who both said they had a viable plan to save Roosevelt, but they declined to give any details.
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