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Ed Johnson (Georgia)
Ed Johnson ran in a special election to the Atlanta Public Schools school board to represent District 2 in Georgia. Johnson lost in the special general election on September 17, 2019.
Johnson ran for the at-large seat 9 on the Atlanta Public Schools Board of Education in a general election on November 5, 2013.
Biography
Johnson was born and grew up in and around Greensboro, Georgia, where he graduated high school in 1964. He attended Fisk University in Nashville, TN from 1964 to 1965 before joining the US Army Security Agency with service in Far East and Middle East in 1966. He graduated from Clark College in Atlanta, Georgia with a B.S. in computer science. He was employed with Louisville & Nashville Railroad, US National Security Agency, Morehouse College and Federal Reserve Bank before his current position as President and Principal Consultant of Quality Information Solutions, Inc.[1]
Elections
2019
See also: Atlanta Public Schools elections (2019)
General runoff election
Special general runoff election for Atlanta Public Schools school board District 2
Aretta Baldon defeated Davida Huntley in the special general runoff election for Atlanta Public Schools school board District 2 on October 15, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Aretta Baldon (Nonpartisan)  | 57.7 | 553 |
| Davida Huntley (Nonpartisan) | 42.3 | 406 | ||
| Total votes: 959 | |||
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General election
Special general election for Atlanta Public Schools school board District 2
The following candidates ran in the special general election for Atlanta Public Schools school board District 2 on September 17, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Aretta Baldon (Nonpartisan) | 30.6 | 342 |
| ✔ | Davida Huntley (Nonpartisan) | 25.3 | 282 | |
 | Paula Kupersmith (Nonpartisan) | 10.9 | 122 | |
| Chadd Jonesmith (Nonpartisan) | 10.1 | 113 | ||
| Christopher Brown (Nonpartisan) | 8.2 | 92 | ||
 | Keisha Carey (Nonpartisan) | 7.0 | 78 | |
 | Nathaniel Borrell Dyer (Nonpartisan) | 4.4 | 49 | |
| Ed Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 2.6 | 29 | ||
 | Will Chandler (Nonpartisan) | 0.8 | 9 | |
| Total votes: 1,116 | |||
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2013
- See also: Atlanta Public Schools elections (2013)
Johnson ran for the at-large seat 9 against Lori James, Jason F. Esteves, Sean Norman and Eddie Lee Brewster on November 5, 2013. Opponents Jason F. Esteves and Lori James faced off in a runoff election on December 3, 2013.
Results
| Atlanta Public Schools, At-large seat 9 General Election, 4-year term, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan |  Jason Esteves |
34.4% | 13,490 | |
| Nonpartisan | Lori James |
30.7% | 12,046 | |
| Nonpartisan | Sean Norman | 13% | 5,091 | |
| Nonpartisan | Ed Johnson | 11.7% | 4,608 | |
| Nonpartisan | Eddie Lee Brewster | 9.7% | 3,814 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in | 0.5% | 192 | |
| Total Votes | 39,241 | |||
| Source: Fulton County Board of Election, "Election Results," accessed October 30, 2017 | ||||
Funding
Johnson reported no contributions or expenditures to the Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission.[2]
Endorsements
Johnson received an endorsement from Atlanta Progressive News.[3]
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ed Johnson did not complete Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey.
2013
Johnson identified the following campaign themes for 2013:[4]
Enlightened school board
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All vital stakeholders—students, teachers, staffs, administrators, parents, taxpayers—deserve democratic and humanitarian control and management of Atlanta Public Schools.
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New common aim
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All vital stakeholders deserve a purpose of education that encourages and welcomes the removal of habits of mind and mental models that serve to demotivate and demoralize teachers and learners. |
Reformed superintendency
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All vital stakeholders deserve a Superintendency that models democratic ideals and leads continual improvement of the whole system of teaching and learning. |
Reform board policies
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All vital stakeholders deserve school board policy free from arbitrary barriers, politics, hidden agendas, social stereotyping, and workforce engineering, so as to provide for: 1. Affirming and honoring the human dignity of all vital stakeholders, unconditionally 2. Absorbing and ultimately eliminating “alternative” schools 3. Achieving optimal usage of facilities to reduce costs 4. Administrators supporting collaborative teaching and learning 5. Bringing back recess to replace workforce-style “breaks” from learning 6. Discretionary spending by teachers 7. Eliminating pay for performance and incentives for test scores 8. Embracing students’ desires, emotions, feelings, interests, likes and dislikes 9. Fostering human development and critical education 10. Fostering organizational learning aided by renowned Systems Thinkers 11. Gaining back school dropouts and “pushouts” through positive interventions 12. Instituting activity-based costing for truer performance and fiscal accountability 13. Instituting quality principles and practices to include wiping out numeral illiteracy 14. Instituting random participation in standardized tests to reduce costs 15. Limiting standardized test prep time 16. Moving away from compliance-inducing, spirit-killing prescriptive learning 17. Moving toward democracy-sustaining, human rights-affirming generative learning 18. Preserving teachers’ and learners’ intrinsic motivation 19. Qualified-by-Quality involvement by business community stakeholders 20. Reciprocal accountability between and among stakeholders 21. Students to formally protest school conditions affecting their learning 22. Superintendent compensation free from monetary incentives and awards |
Note: The above quote is from the candidate's website, which may include some typographical or spelling errors.
See also
2019 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Ed Johnson in Seat 9, "About Ed," accessed October 30, 2013
- ↑ Georgia Government Transparency and Campaign Finance Commission, "Johnson, Ed(Edward) H.," accessed December 26, 2013
- ↑ Atlanta Progressive News, "APN Full Endorsements: APS BOE 2013," MATTHEW CHARLES CARDINALE, October 20, 2013
- ↑ Ed Johnson in Seat 9, "New Reality Framework," accessed October 30, 2013
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