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LeDonna White Griffin
LeDonna White Griffin ran for election to the Nebraska State Board of Education to represent District 4. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
White Griffin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
LeDonna White Griffin was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She earned a high school diploma from Central High School, a bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha in 1995, a graduate degree from the University of Nebraska, Omaha in 1997, and a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska, Omaha in 2006. Her career experience includes working as a educator and business owner.[1]
Elections
2024
See also: Nebraska State Board of Education election, 2024
General election
General election for Nebraska State Board of Education District 4
Liz Renner defeated LeDonna White Griffin in the general election for Nebraska State Board of Education District 4 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Liz Renner (Nonpartisan)  | 62.9 | 42,609 |
 | LeDonna White Griffin (Nonpartisan) | 37.1 | 25,185 | |
| Total votes: 67,794 | |||
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Nonpartisan primary election
Nonpartisan primary for Nebraska State Board of Education District 4
Liz Renner and LeDonna White Griffin defeated Stacy Matula in the primary for Nebraska State Board of Education District 4 on May 14, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Liz Renner (Nonpartisan) | 47.0 | 11,296 |
| ✔ | | LeDonna White Griffin (Nonpartisan) | 28.7 | 6,900 |
 | Stacy Matula (Nonpartisan) | 24.3 | 5,842 | |
| Total votes: 24,038 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for White Griffin in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
LeDonna White Griffin completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by White Griffin's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- Strong Competent Readers: When children know how to read, teachers transition from telling them what to think to teaching them how to think. Education should prepare our children for the world that they have not yet experienced. A 7 year old and a single mom, participated in the educational services offered by Leaders to Legends. When I first asked him to read, he put his head down with tears in his eyes and said I don't know how to read. Mom and I empowered him and shared with him that if he doesn't quit, we won't quit and we immediately began teaching an intense, fun, phonics curriculum. It wasn't long before mom said she couldn't get the books out of his hands and a year later he successfully returned to the private school setting.
- Parent Choice: when something isn't working for your child, then parents should and have to do something about it. Ensuring that these supports are in place for them to do that is key.
- Providing Teachers and Students with the autonomy to embrace a growth mindset and be innovative in implementing measures that prove success of both the Teacher and the students. Removal of the barriers that paralyze a teacher from doing what is best for the child in front of them. Teachers are well educated and prepared to make a difference in he lives of children when they are allowed to do so. I experienced this first hand as a classroom teacher and observed many other teachers experiencing this same success when using innovative practices that did not allow the child to fail first and then try to fix the problem.
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Campaign website
White Griffin’s campaign website stated the following:
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Building Competent Readers Empowering Parent Choice Ingraining a Growth Mindset into our Education |
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| —LeDonna White Griffin’s campaign website (2024)[3] | ||
See also
2024 Elections
External links
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Candidate Nebraska State Board of Education District 4 |
Personal |
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 14, 2024
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ LeDonna White Griffin’s campaign website, “Issues,” accessed April 19, 2024
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