Local educator wins prestigious award

BAKERSFIELD, CA  - A local educator was selected as one of the recipients for the California Teachers Association's Human Rights Awards.

Union leader Michelle S. Johnson, president of the Bakersfield Elementary Teachers Association, won the Lois Tinson Human Rights Award, named after the first African-American president of CTA. 

Johnson is the second African-American president of her union, and its youngest. She is actively involved in engaging the Bakersfield community in a