White House chief of black education is ‘passionate’ about his work
Published: Wednesday, Aug. 14, 2013 - 5:10 pm
Olivier Douliery / Abaca Press/MCT
David Johns l, is President Barack Obama's choice as the first executive director of the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans.
WASHINGTON -- All through his years of schooling, David Johns was one of the few African-Americans in his classroom, from the high school in Los Angeles that was nearly an hourlong bus ride away – but that his mother insisted he attend – to Columbia University in New York.
Even when he taught elementary school in Manhattan, not a single black student sat behind one of the desks before him.
Now Johns sits behind a desk – at the U.S. Department of Education, no less – where it’s his job to lead a presidential effort to improve education for African-American students everywhere. Read More at:
