Joe Goodin
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Joe Goodin ran in a special election to the Jefferson County Public Schools to represent District 4 in Kentucky. Goodin lost in the special general election on November 5, 2019.
Goodin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2019. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Goodin was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended McKendree University and the Community College of the Air Force. He worked as an IT Director and communications systems support superintendent. Goodin served in the U.S. Air Force and the Kentucky Air National Guard.[1]
Elections
2019
See also: Jefferson County Public Schools elections (2019)
General election
Special general election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 4
The following candidates ran in the special general election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 4 on November 5, 2019.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Joseph Marshall (Nonpartisan) | 42.9 | 10,871 |
 | Shameka Parrish-Wright (Nonpartisan) | 18.0 | 4,556 | |
| David Whitlock (Nonpartisan) | 14.3 | 3,633 | ||
| Debra Gray (Nonpartisan) | 8.7 | 2,203 | ||
 | Joe Goodin (Nonpartisan)  | 7.3 | 1,857 | |
| Cassandra Ryan (Nonpartisan) | 5.3 | 1,342 | ||
| Joe Laurenz (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 672 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 195 | ||
| Total votes: 25,329 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Saundra Gibson (Nonpartisan)
Campaign themes
2019
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Growing up in Southwest Jefferson County, I have lived and kept a southwest address for most of my life. I am a retired, career military senior leader with extensive administrative, management, logistical, and fiscal experience in building and developing organizations within government and military organizations. My JCPS experience began in the sixth-grade and I am a graduate of Valley High School and co-founder of its Alumni Association. I hold a BA-Business Administration, McKendree University with post-graduate work; and several A.A.S. degrees in Computer Information Systems & Technology, Applied Sciences (Electronics & Communications), and Meteorology with the Community College of the Air Force. My children attended and graduated from JCPS and my grandchildren have either graduated or are currently enrolled in JCPS. I have had years of experience in JCPS classrooms working as a former para-educator in Special Education and remain a current-active JCPS classroom volunteer.
- District 4's concerns about its public schools are not communicated with the Board of Education because has not been represented by anyone who is invested or engaged in them to the degree I have been as a life-long stakeholder in JCPS.
- The JCPS student assignment plan needs to be scrapped as it further widens the achievement gap among our minority students and does nothing to facilitate their success.
- District 4 needs more magnet and/or traditional school options that enable us to keep the 'best-of-our-best' student in our community.
Some of our budget woes come courtesy of Frankfort's removal of education funds; ironically, they are telling us because we have failed to exercise the annual assessment, we now don't have enough money. In the Corrective Action Plan related to the 2017 audit, we have little choice but to enact the annual tax increase or face possible takeover. I think stakeholders have every right to mistrust JCPS fiscal management and confidence is hard to come by with the Racial Equity Plan and these schools-of-color funding. The incentives address a definite necessity but is the money enough? However, I'm struggling to believe that within a $1.7 billion budget, there isn't funding already available for these programs to get off the ground strongly and successfully. The future and expansion of them is dependent upon stringent fiscal management and prioritization of needs. I believe some Frankfort oversight can serve to ensure funds are spent for what they're intended. Since it appears we will have an annual tax increase, as a board member, I want to see some of it earmarked for minority learning incentives.
Additionally, we need to restructure school resource officer positions to be more in line with providing both school security and intervention with the exercise of restorative justice practices under the direction and control of JCPS leadership and hopefully further reduce suspensions.
Additionally, we need to restructure school resource officer positions to be more in line with providing both school security and intervention with the exercise of restorative justice practices under the direction and control of JCPS leadership and hopefully further reduce suspensions.
Integrity, focused, and a communicator.
Leadership; Experienced; Committed; Dedication; Communicator
Communication and honesty.
I have no desire for political office and I am not building a resume. I want to establish representation for my southwest community that will have future representatives who will keep the people first.
I would say the first historical event I can recall vividly was the Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962. I wasn't quite 11 years old just yet and it also likely the first time I saw both my parents be rally scared.
I don't have a particularly favorite book though I do read all of Clive Cussler's works. I guess one literary work that would stand out would be, "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Drop Kick Murphy's "The State of Massachusetts"
Dealing with people who have agendas.
My job is to communicate with my constituents and represent their concerns as best I can in the policy-making mechanism that is the board of education. I am also to ensure they hear from me of policy introductions and changes. I am to be on my guard regarding anything that affects the welfare of our students, their teachers, and our schools and to serve their best interests in spite of my personal convictions. It requires a high level of integrity and straightforwardness in forming a collaborative effort with fellow members and never forgetting that we represent our fellow stakeholders and not individual agendas.
Residents of Southwest Jefferson County, Kentucky which includes all of Pleasure Ridge Park zip code 40258 and the majority of Shively (40216) and Valley Station (40272) with portions of the Manslick-Jacobs (40215) and Iroquois (40214).
Racial parity is such a problem that our people of color are demanding they have their kids back so they can teach them. Afrocentric curriculum and more teachers of color will help but we have to do something about the stigma of segregation re-emerging with schools of color emphases. I would advocate "magnet" academies. The assignment plan builds-up high performing schools and leaves the rest by the wayside. The curriculum is the same throughout our schools...discipline issues are real and a real deterrent to learning but if we stand firm on consequences and demand the same standard to curriculum delivery, why shouldn't diverse needs be met?
I would be involved with District 4's PTA's and SBDM groups as they will be the key contributors to community interests and needs in the southwest community.
I'm a communicator. I answer emails and phone calls and I'll ensure they know how to contact me. I'm not going to be just an office at the administration building, Peoplewill find me open and transparent and often brutally honest.
In this age, yes. We have a serious matter with trying to get our most vulnerable and challenged students on par with academic success. JCPS has enabled decades of failure and misrepresentation to shape and serve our minority students. We bus them hours and miles away from their homes and hold that demographic factors are the only reason they are still falling behind. It isn't working and it won't work because we have no "outside-the-box" thinking for fear that we'll come under great social scrutiny and condemnation. We have to help these kids and what we're doing isn't getting the job done. This is the day and age for another approach...I would call it magnet-minority schools where our boys and girls can be met and taught with real and relevant studies by staff that can relate to them and understand them.
JCPS's student assignment plan, school choice, and setting school boundaries according to voting precincts. As demographics change, the assignment plan has to follow suit. It doesn't matter what school the plan identifies the student will attend, the parent can opt out via a wide-open, liberal choice preference. The voting precinct design has decimated the former "community" atmosphere in District 4 and JCPS claims it supports community.
The teacher fully empowered to deliver the curriculum without administrative millstones around their necks. The teacher fully encouraged to change behavior so learning does take place without having to constantly stop and address discipline. And the teacher allowed to conduct in-house assessments that measures the student's ability to grasp the knowledge and skills taught to them that isn't designed in compartmentalized assessment test after test after test.
Technology...it is ever evolving. Trade skills too; we won't have plumbers, electricians, or mechanics if we don;t develop trades-persons.
Minimum wage is such that a H.S. diploma is almost worthless. In Kentucky, our diplomas reflect who was able to succeed well on tests. Our kids can't fill out job applications because it wasn't a test item.
JCPS's mantra is to produce graduates that are career or college ready. It depends on which school you go to on what kind of rudimentary career skill you acquire. The district's "school choice" enables youngsters to enroll in those courses they find attractive, The problem is our transportation costs are ridiculous because no one is going to be denied the opportunity to go where they want.
We have a budget of $1.7 billion and the money is there. I'm of the opinion we waste some of it and mismanage or poorly prioritize it as well. We are mandated by state government to enact a 4% annual assessment on property owners and taxes are extremely unpopular. Voter/stakeholder confidence in JCPS fiscal management is so low that any notion of a re-callable "nickel tax" has no chance.
Having been once skilled in safe crisis management (SCM) techniques, the first order is to ensure the student is safe...from himself or others. My own experience has shown that individuals who would seek to harm themselves and/or others--to include staff--have issues that need intervention only a trained interventionist can offer. All I would ever be able to do is stop them from carrying out harm. I don't like the idea of having armed personnel in a school building; but from experience, again, these schools are nothing like they were in my day. Louisville is a violent city that sends violent kids to school. No school staff member is equipped or prepared to contend with a worst-case event. The armed security member is at least a deterrent.
First off, I would make sure they have a safe and secure environment which is not the case today and an extreme mentally stressful situation. I cannot support disciplinary measures that take the teacher out of the learning process leaving the majority of the kids who do want to learn to do without. Disciplinary measures--or retribution--taken on a teacher for submitting referrals or enacting behavior controls, to include paperwork and administrator interaction, has to end.
JCPS is woefully behind the technology curve due in part to it being such a large, metropolitan school district. Our high-achieving, elite magnet and traditional campuses are far better equipped while everyone else has to make do with that they have. We will indeed need new schools in the future; the present, however, demands funds be spent to get our kids up to speed and competitive with their peers in other districts.
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See also
2019 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on October 2, 2019
