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July 27, 2021
Dr. Tarece Johnson’s recent election to suburban Atlanta’s Gwinnett County School Board is in part a product of a changing Georgia. At age 44, she is the first Black and Jewish woman elected to the board. To put her election in context, the county’s first Black school board member, Everton Blair, was elected as recently as 2018.
She’s part of Georgia’s “Blue Wave,” including January’s victory of two Democratic senate candidates in the Georgia runoff election, which not only flipped the balance of power in the Senate, they also delivered two historic “firsts” from that state to Washington: Georgia’s first Black senator, Rev Raphael Warnock and the state’s first Jewish senator, Jon Ossoff. Along with President Biden’s winning Georgia in the presidential election, these Senate victories signaled a sea change in the demographic and political character of the state.
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Ann LaFavor, in blue at the podium, speaks to reporters and Gwinnett residents at a Monday news conference in Lawrenceville. Next to her in red is state Rep. Donna McLeod. (Jim Massara / Patch)
Gwinnett County Solicitor General Brian Whiteside said Monday that an alleged assault at the May 20 meeting of the county school board should at least have resulted in a police report. (Jim Massara / Patch)
“Security was there. They stood back,” Ann LaFavor said of an assault she alleges to have happened at the May 20 meeting of the Gwinnett County Board of Education. “Which means Black lives don’t matter in Gwinnett County.” (Jim Massara / Patch)
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Triggered by at least one complaint against the school board, Gwinnett County s public-school accreditation will be reviewed a year early. (Jim Massara / Patch)
GWINNETT COUNTY, GA Prompted by multiple complaints including at least one about the school board the agency responsible for accrediting Gwinnett County s public schools will conduct a special review later this month.
The review is scheduled for June 13-16, said Mariama Tyler, spokesperson for accreditation agency Cognia. It will be conducted virtually, Tyler said, with a thorough review of evidence and interviews with administrators, staff, board members and community members to determine whether there are any violations of Cognia standards.