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Ed Johnson For Atlanta School Board, Part 2 | Diane Ravitch's blog

Ed Johnson For Atlanta School Board, Part 2 | Diane Ravitch's blog

Ed Johnson For Atlanta School Board, Part 2

Part 1: Ed Johnson for School Board in Atlanta on September 17! | Diane Ravitch's blog - https://wp.me/p2odLa-naG via @dianeravitch

Ed Johnson responds to the Atlanta Association of Educators and explains why he is running for the school board.
I am posting two of his responses because I don’t think you will find any school board candidate in the nation who has responded as thoughtfully as Ed Johnson.

Ed Johnson
Candidate, Atlanta Board of Education District 2
1. What is your concern and goals for the students of District 2?
In his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote:
“Moreover, I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. … We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.”


Because I am practiced in and hold great respect for the profound, seemingly uncommon wisdom the word “interrelatedness” implies and carries, my concern and CONTINUE READING: Ed Johnson For Atlanta School Board, Part 2 | Diane Ravitch's blog