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Ed Johnson to the Atlanta School Board: "America United" and "A Union with Purpose", Diane Ravitch

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"We the people will have neither an “America United” nor “a Union with Purpose” as long as you continue to help pursue the ideological folly of school choice and charter schools with the aim of gradually but surely destroying public education and public schools. The prayer and hope now is that each of you will reach into the deepest recesses of your heart and soul and extract any remnants of wisdom you find there that will lead you to understand that school choice and charter schools ideology is folly and absolutely contrary to there ever being an “America United” existing as “a Union with Purpose;”" says Ed Johnson, a  systems analyst & tireless advocate for systemic improvement of the Atlanta Public Schools.  He wrote this letter: "Inauguration 2021: “America United” and “a Union with Purpose” after watching the Inauguration ceremonies. 

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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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