Retired Couple Spent Life Savings and Built School to Help Students Defy the Odds

REV Originals July 14, 2023
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Verna and Simon Johnson were on the brink of retirement in the late 1990s when they decided to do something different. 

Verna firmly asserts that every child has the ability to learn. With the advent of the charter school movement in the 1990s, she saw an opportunity to substantiate her beliefs.

So she and Simon built a school — providi...

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