Browsing: Virginia

      Words fail me – but they’re all I have, or so it seems as I sit here at a table in my new apartment. They ain’t enough! Not as I read the news and feel . . . something . . . rise, politically and socially, and presume to be the American future.

     Col. Carl Croston Johnson, one of the last known living members of the famed Tuskegee Airmen, died last week at age 97 in Reston, Virginia. Col. Johnson was born in 1926 and was discharged from active duty in the US Army Air Force in 1947. The Tuskegee Airmen was a group of African American military pilots who served in World War II.

The Obama Administration approved Washington and Wisconsin recently for flexibility from key provisions of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) in exchange for state-developed plans to prepare all students for college and career, focus aid on the neediest students, and support effective teaching and leadership.