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Block Club Chicago: West Side Violence Prevention Group Helping CPS Design Alternatives To Cops In Schools: ‘A Whole Different Way Of Them Doing Things’

January 28, 2021

From Block Club Chicago.

By: Pascal Sabino | Thursday, January 28th, 2021

West Side Violence Prevention Group Helping CPS Design Alternatives To Cops In Schools: ‘A Whole Different Way Of Them Doing Things’

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We are thrilled to be joined by one of our very own Mikva teachers for tomorrow's panel. Meet Colonel Fred Johnson (USA, RET). He is a Retired Infantry Colonel who served in the Army for 29 years before entering the classroom as a social studies teacher in 2019. He is also the author of two books and a TEDx speaker. Johnson is a Mikva Teacher Leader in the Jefferson County Public School system in Louisville, Kentucky.

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