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Ainye Long
Ainye Long ran for election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction. She lost in the primary on June 7, 2022.
Long completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ainye Long was born in Berkeley, California. Long's professional experience includes working as a public school teacher. She earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2006.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: California Superintendent of Public Instruction election, 2022
General election
General election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction
Incumbent Tony Thurmond defeated Lance Christensen in the general election for California Superintendent of Public Instruction on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Tony Thurmond (Nonpartisan) | 63.7 | 5,681,318 |
 | Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan)  | 36.3 | 3,237,785 | |
| Total votes: 8,919,103 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for California Superintendent of Public Instruction
The following candidates ran in the primary for California Superintendent of Public Instruction on June 7, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Tony Thurmond (Nonpartisan) | 45.9 | 2,881,684 |
| ✔ | | Lance Christensen (Nonpartisan) | 11.9 | 745,003 |
 | Ainye Long (Nonpartisan) | 11.1 | 699,331 | |
 | George Yang (Nonpartisan) | 11.1 | 694,073 | |
 | Marco Amaral (Nonpartisan) | 8.7 | 547,389 | |
 | Jim Gibson (Nonpartisan) | 7.5 | 468,078 | |
 | Joseph Campbell (Nonpartisan) | 3.9 | 241,984 | |
| Total votes: 6,277,542 | |||
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Campaign finance
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Ainye Long completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2022. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Long's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Ms. Long has diverse experience in California schools as a teacher, Director of Parent and Community Engagement at the California Charter Schools Association, and Oakland Regional Superintendent at Amethod Public Schools has given her a unique understanding of California students' needs and the administrative systems and structures to get them met.
As an educator, student, and advocate, Ms. Long enjoys a stellar reputation as a creator of transformative systems, while simultaneously mobilizing and empowering communities through advocacy training and support. Ms. Long continues to transform schools and communities by leading anti-racist and abolitionist training for faculty, and designing engagement programs to empower students to continue meeting standards in changing times.
- Prioritizing the schoolhouse - elevating the voices and needs of the people in the schoolhouse (teachers, student, families, and community members)
- Establishing measurable impact - connecting all initiatives to schoolhouse needs that are measurable and sustainable
- An informed and invested public - providing opportunities and resources for the public to be knowledge of the needs and well-being of local schools, and how they can contribute their time and talents to address schoolhouse needs
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
See also
2022 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on May 10, 2022
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