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Atlanta teacher visits White House leaders

By Mark Niesse
May 7, 2014

A seventh-grade social studies teacher at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Sandy Springs was one of 20 teachers from across the country who visited the White House on Wednesday for a Teacher Appreciation Week event.

The teacher, Alex Bragg, was participating in a conversation with administration officials including Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Jill Biden, a lifelong educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden.

The group of teachers also was taking a tour of the White House and sharing a cup of tea with Biden.

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Mark Niesse is an enterprise reporter and covers elections and Georgia government for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and is considered an expert on elections and voting. Before joining the AJC, he worked for The Associated Press in Atlanta, Honolulu and Montgomery, Alabama. He also reported for The Daily Report and The Santiago Times in Chile.

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