Jordyne Blaise
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Jordyne Blaise ran for election to the Wake County Public School System to represent District 3 in North Carolina. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Blaise completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Jordyne Blaise earned a bachelor's and law degree from Georgetown University. Her career experience includes working in consulting.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Wake County Public School System, North Carolina, elections (2024)
General election
General election for Wake County Public School System, District 3
Incumbent Wing Ng defeated Jordyne Blaise in the general election for Wake County Public School System, District 3 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Wing Ng (Nonpartisan) | 50.3 | 35,279 |
 | Jordyne Blaise (Nonpartisan)  | 49.1 | 34,463 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.7 | 463 | ||
| Total votes: 70,205 | |||
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Endorsements
Blaise received the following endorsements.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Jordyne Blaise completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Blaise's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I’m a former high school English teacher with 15 years of experience in education policy and civil rights compliance. I am a public school graduate and attorney turned small business owner and leadership coach. I am passionate about public service and care deeply about empowering young people and preserving public education.
- Access: ensuring our students have access to a sound, public education as guaranteed by the state constitution.
- Belonging: ensuring our schools remain spaces when students and staff are treated fairly and feel like they belong- this includes addressing physical and psychological safety and well being.
- Community: finding thoughtful and creative pathways to best in class community engagement where parents and community members can be involved and engaged as thought partners.
Education, economic development, and climate.
Care and concern for all constituents, ethics and values that guide the decisions you make and informs the company you keep, and thoughtful and reasoned decision making that considers various perspectives and ultimately is guided by what is best for young people.
I’m a voracious reader and intellectually curious person. I believe that curiosity, ability to ask questions and desire to become immersed in a topic make me uniquely qualified to be successful in this office.
Reviewing and approving the budget, engaging parents, students and families, and drafting policies.
Lauren Olamina— if we have the occasion to meet, I’d love to chat about why. She’s a pretty incredible teenager!
To draft policy that guides the work of the superintendent and public school system staff.
All people in Wake county.
By recognizing and celebrating the diversity of the district’s students, faculty staff and community. This includes considering the lived experiences of all of them as a part of my decision making, seeking feedback from them, being culturally competent and understanding the needs of different communities and being willing to listen.
I will specifically target school staff, teachers, parents/families, students, business owners, and other elected officials to build relationships and inform my work. Our school system touches every aspect of our community and strengthening community engagement is a core part of my platform. I seek to do this by utilizing technology, social media, community partners, and creative avenues like attending football games, school plays, cultural programs and other community events and using those events as opportunities to engage parents and teachers about the issues that matter to them most.
Good training is when professionals trained in education with access to ongoing professional development, are able to teach and not have to wear 40 other hats to support their students. Good teaching teaches students to be critical thinkers and intellectually curious and emotionally aware. This can be measured in a variety of ways such as evaluations, test scores, participation in professional development etc. I support expanding access to professional development opportunities that ensure our educators have access to cutting edge developments in teaching.
I would leverage strong partnership with the NC department of public instruction which sets curriculum for our public schools.
I would work to advocate for funding from both the county commissioners and state legislature through relationship building and sharing information with constituents to ensure they hold their elected officials accountable.
Safety is wholistic- it includes addressing physical safety but also behavioral health, mental well being, and ensuring there is adequate staff to manage students in the building. My policies for safety in schools is driven by the belief that no parent should have to worry if they will see their child again when they send them off to school and safety is both necessary and urgent.
Adequate staffing to support the unprecedented mental health crisis we are experiencing as a society, destigmatizing accessing care, ensuring staff have adequate benefits to support their well being and enough time to access them, and leveraging grant programs and community partnerships to supplement supports in this area.
I’d like to spend my first several months in the role learning, getting to know the administrative leadership, hearing directly from schools and families in my district and also across the system to thoughtfully address the most pressing needs. Something top of mind for me is any policy changes that would help address aging infrastructure and HVAC issues that are currently impacting several schools.
North Carolina Association of Educators
Equality NC PAC
Wake County Democratic Party
Raleigh Wake Citizens Association
An ideal learning environment is a space where each student has the support they need to be successful, where they are fed, their teachers are relaxed and able to focus on teaching, and they feel safe. Safe to be themselves, safe from violence, and have ample resources to be academically successful.
The district did the best they could under impossible circumstances. No one had experience navigating a global public health emergency of this magnitude and I believe while imperfect, the district went to great lengths to ensure we did all we could to make it out of the pandemic as whole as possible and that is to be commended.
Partner with PTAs, leverage technology, host parent engagement meetings in person and virtually, and visit schools to meet parents where they are.
I prefer to advocate for offering our professionals competitive pay, excellent benefits and grants/additional support that makes their jobs easier.
Public schools are required to disclose how they are spending taxpayer money. This level of transparency and accountability is a part of the benefit of the public school system. I believe that informed citizens should always have the opportunity to take an active part in understanding how public funds are being used.
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on October 8, 2024
