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5b e Ahuattce The ADVANCE, September 7, 2022/Page 9A Obituaries Mr. Jack Sanders Mr. Jack Graham Sanders, age 85, of Dublin, died on Monday, August 29, 2022, at Fairview Park Hospital in Dublin. Mr. Sanders was a life long resident of Dublin and was a graduate of Dudley High School. He worked for the City of Dublin as a Firefighter, retiring in the early 2000s as a Sergeant. As a teenager he worked in the automotive and marine upholstery business with Robert Sanders of Dublin. He continued working in the automotive upholstery business at Smith’s Auto motive, on days off from the fire department for over 40 years. He was a member of Pleasant Springs Baptist Church, East Dublin. He was preceded in death by his parents, Jule and Flossie Graham Sanders; brothers, James, Clarence and Eu- las Sanders; a sister, Mary Smith; sisters-in-law, Mar garet Byrd and her husband Jay, Miriam Carter and hus band, Francis; and a niece, Mary Alice Howard. Survivors include his wife of 39 years, Eudell Right Sanders, Dublin; 1 special niece, Taylor Carter-Dean (Drake), Jacksonville, FL; sisters- in-law, Ruby Nelle Black, Elsie Black; other nieces and nephews, Judy Wrye (Randall), Ken Sanders, Melanie Sanders, Alicia Howell (Chris), Joy Brown (David), Michelle Brown- Dickens (Sammy), Ridge Brown-Dickens, Michael Carter, Thomas Carter, Tucker Carter and David Howard. Funeral services were conducted on Thursday, September 1, 2022, at 11:00 a.m., at Pleasant Springs Baptist Church, East Dublin, with Pastor Keith Collins officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery with Fire fighter honors performed by the City of Dublin Fire Department. Sammons Funeral Home in Soperton was in charge of arrangements. Lowry continued from page 7A of pharmacy, hospital quality committees, and hospital attorneys to provide more detailed guidance to doctors on how to reach a determination that abortion is necessary. Tragically, this type of guidance appears slow in coming.” It’d also help if Democrats stopped lying about these laws, although that’s not going to happen. White House press secretary Karine Jean- Pierre said the other day that the Texas pro-life law will “block medical providers from providing life-saving and health preserving care,” a blatant falsehood. The Texas law has a clear life-of-the- mother exception and explicitly excludes treatment for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies from its definition of abortion. At the moment, though, such falsehoods are carrying the day. To find their footing, Republicans will have to be courageous and shrewd, two qualities so far in short supply. Rich Lowry is editor of the National Review. (c) 2022 by King Features Synd., Inc. Georgia unemployment rate, job numbers set new records By Dave Williams Bureau Chief Capitol Beat News Service Georgia’s unemploy ment rate fell again last month to a record-low 2.8%, while the Peach State hit an all-time high in job numbers, the Georgia De partment of Labor report ed Thursday. The jobless rate de clined slightly in July from 2.9% in June and was seven-tenths of a percent lower than the national un employment rate of 3.5%. The number of jobs in Georgia rose last month to an all-time high of more than 4.8 million, up 12,500 from June and 214,300 from July of last year. Job numbers were at record highs in the trade and transportation; finan cial activities; professional, scientific, and technical services; and education and health services sectors. “Georgia’s job num bers continue to climb, reinforcing the state’s posi tion as one of the nation’s best places to find employ ment,” Georgia Commis sioner of Labor Mark But ler said Thursday. “These all-time highs in multiple sectors dem onstrate the employment opportunities the state is experiencing across the board.” On the downside, initial unemployment claims increased by 11% last month from June to 28,545. However, first time jobless claims have fallen significantly during the past year and are down 52%, or 30,266, from July 2021. There are more than 217,000 jobs listed online at EmployGeorgia.com, resulting in a minimum of more than 285,000 unfilled positions. Industries with more than 10,000 job postings include health care; retail trade; accommodation and food services; manufactur ing; professional, scientific, and technical services; fi nance and insurance; and transportation and ware housing. This story is available through a news partnership with Capitol Beat News Service, a project of the Georgia Press Educational Foundation. MoCo continued from page 5A the school has been allotted $450,000 to purchase five buses. This gives the school $88,110 to spend on each bus, but the money must be spent within 3 years. According to Ricks, the price of buses has increased by around $18,000 per bus, so he fears the price will continue to increase if ac tion is not taken now. The allotted state fundingwillbe used for both buses, as well as an additional $39,584 of Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) per bus. New Policies Budget The FY23 budget was unanimously approved by the Board at the August meeting. This new budget projects $17,610,991 of total revenue, $11,000,000 from the general local and state funding and $6,610,941 from SPLOST, local sources, and ESSER. It also shows plans to use all ESSER funds for the desig nated purposes by FY24. IEDA, IKBB, IKBC Three policies were placed on the table for the procedural 30 days, and will be voted on at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting. The IEDA Policy, also known as the Recess/Un structured Break Time policy, requires all elemen tary school students to have some form of recess every day, except for days when physical education, struc tured activity time (field trips, assemblies), or in clement weather (with no indoor space available) oc curs. The IKBB Policy, or Di visive Concepts Complaint Resolution Process, states that parents, emancipated minors or students at age of majority, or school staff may submit written complaints on divisive concepts being taught or encouraged at the school. Once the principal of the school where the al leged violation occurs re ceive a written complaint, they have 5 days to investi gate the issue, and 10 days to respond to the complain ant. Once receiving the ad ministrative response, the complainant may appeal to the Superintendent and Board of Education, who will then review the situa tion and make a decision. Complainants also have the right to request noncon- fidential records that may substantiate a complaint under this policy. Records should be produced and available for review within 3 days, and if not, the re quester should be given a reason why the records are unavailable or a timeline of availability. If records or re sponse is not given within 30 days, the individual may appeal the denial or failure to the Board, who must put it on the next meeting’s agenda. Some subjects that are deemed “divisive concepts” within the policy are: rac ism, personal political be liefs, race scapegoating, and racial stereotyping. The IKBC Policy, also known as Material Harmful to Minors Complaint Reso lution process, has similar guidelines. This policy al lows parents or guardians to submit detailed complaints of this nature to the prin cipal of the child’s school. Within 7 days, the school principal should review the complaint and review the situation. The parent should receive a response from the school principal within 10 days, and once that re sponse is received, the par ent may appeal the decision to the Board, which will speak with the parent and investigate the situation. The title of the material that the Board determines to not be harmful should be placed on the Board’s web site within 15 days of the de cision and will remain there for no less than 12 months. The parent may also request access to appealed materials that are physical in nature and accessible to students through the school’s media center. Examples of material that are considered harm ful to minors in this policy are the description or rep resentation of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse when it appeals to the pru rient, shameful, or morbid interest, lacking in educa tional value, or discussed in a offensive nature. COVID Leave The 10-day leave for COVID-positive teachers was renewed by the Board. Superintendent Report Childcare Superintendent Stan Rentz told Board mem bers that the school system is studying surrounding school systems, such as Tel fair County Schools, with on-campus childcare facili ties for teachers. These fa cilities do come at a cost for these employees, but allow them to have childcare for their children at the same location of their job. Increase in Enrollment Rentz said the school system is experiencing an increase in enrollment in the pre-k age group. This uptick has allowed the school to create an addi tional pre-k class, which be gan this week. Teacher of the Year Teachers at each school will begin to vote for the teachers of the year later in the month. A Support Per son of the Year will also be chosen from each school after the recommendation from Rentz. This award will celebrate lunchroom personnel, paraprofession- als, office receptionists, and other support staff who help the schools to function daily. Personnel Recommenda tions The resignations of First Grade Teacher Tam my Murdaugh and Bus Monitor Regina Best were accepted. The following new hires were approved: Bus Monitor Alberta Conner, Bus Monitor Crystal Wil liams, Work Based Learn ing Custodian John Holder, Elementary School Special Education Paraprofessional Alicia Newsome, Elemen tary School Special Educa tion Professional Ashley Coursey, Pre-K Paraprofes sional Brittany Bullard, Pre- K Teacher Madison Thom as, and First Grade Teacher Donna Wilcox. Several substitutes were also approved, includ ing: Randy Dudley, Laura Clark, Janice Nobles, Amy Brantley, Donna Warren, Leaette Williamson, and Lazaria Williams. Star continued from page 7A over this period, and the price of cellphone service was down 41% and computer software was down 70.5%. Whereas the price of college textbooks increased 162%, over the same time period the price of recreational books, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, declined slightly. The only area that exceeded college tuition increases was hospital services, which were up in price 220%. The distinguishing factor between areas with large price increases, well above the general rate of inflation, and areas with no change and drops in prices, is government involvement. Areas with a lot of government in their business — health care, higher education, child care and nurseries — had price increases over time well above the general rate of inflation. Business operating freely without government supports overall were unchanged or dramatically lower in prices. So, our scholarly friend at the Brookings Institution may well have things backward. Government is not the solution to escalating costs of college tuition and books, but to a large extent the cause. Universities are free to bloat their bureaucracies and offer programs that are of little practical use, such as various ethnic studies programs and other programs structured to appeal to politically correct themes that are popular with youth. They do it because they know that government programs and supports will bear the costs. Of course, universities should be free to do what they want. But not on my dime. What is being called loan forgiveness is not loan forgiveness. It is debt transfer. How many reading this column would be glad to pay tuition for their neighbor’s children? This is what is going on. But it’s really worse. At least if your neighbor asks you to foot the bill for their child’s tuition, you can refuse. But now we have a smiling president buying the love of Americans who are happy to see their debts disappear, while those debts are transferred, by presidential fiat, to American taxpayers. Is this really the way to build a nation of strong character and a thriving, efficient economy? Regarding the NAACP, I wrote a book called “Uncle Sam’s Plantation: How Big Government Enslaves America’s Poor and what We Can Do About It”. NAACP is doing its part making college too expensive and getting government more involved to make things worse. Star Parker is president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education and host of the weekly television show "Cure America with Star Parker." To find out more about Star Parker and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate website at www. creators.com. COPYRIGHT 2022 CREATORS. COM Abrams continued from page 6A of benefits.” Abrams sent out a press release saying the practice cheats work ers out of “unemployment benefits, workers’ com pensation, Social Security.” However, the gubernatorial candidate is skilled in craft ing loopholes to exempt her own non-profits from pay ing tax revenues. As it turns out, Abrams’ own non profits have been penalized for not paying unemploy ment contributions to their own workers. According to the At lanta Journal Constitution, Third Sector Development was expanded to oversee her New Georgia Project voter-registration effort and reportedly incurred penalties for that very practice. “A nonprofit cre ated by Abrams talked four liens worth $13,000 from the Georgia Department of Labor for unpaid unem ployment contributions be tween 2014 and 2016, ac cording to state tax records. Abrams earned about $180,000 in 2014 as the part-time chief executive of the New Georgia Project, which set out to register hundreds of thousands of new voters in time for the midterm election.” In 2018 Stacey Abrams owed $54,000 to the IRS, $96,000 in student loans and $83,000 in credit card debt. In 2019 she paid off all those. Now she is worth more than $3 million in cluding $725,000 in stocks and bonds, a $975,000 property outside of Atlanta, a $370,000 house in Atlanta for her parents, and assets of $560,000 set aside in a “tax account, along with her income from various orga nizations, cowriting books and making speeches. In the private sector, candidate Abrams created self-serving organizations structured to deprive the state and federal govern ments of tax revenues. These contrived projects showed no results from the millions of dollars contrib uted to them other than taking advantage of the people who were employed as workers on her projects. Stacy Abrams has repeated ly exhibited less than stellar character traits by cheating the state out of tax revenues and is not fiscally fit to be governor of Georgia. In the 2020 presiden tial election, Stacey Abrams bragged about requesting 1.2 million absentee ballots for her newly registered vot ers, most of whom didn’t even know who was run ning. Abrams said, “85,000 of those applications are from voters who did not vote in the general election, and they are disproportion ately between the ages of 18 and 29 and dispropor tionately people of color.” Many Georgians still have “serious concerns” about the state’s elections and must have confidence in the progress for future elec tions. They want Raffens- perger to implement a more “robust verification pro cess” for reviewing signa tures on absentee ballot ap plications and mail-in ballot envelopes that will include independent observers so that Stacey Abrams and her ilk will not take advantage of people.