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Linda Duncan
Linda Duncan is a member of the Jefferson County Public Schools in Kentucky, representing District 5. She assumed office in 2006. Her current term ends on January 4, 2027.
Duncan ran for re-election to the Jefferson County Public Schools to represent District 5 in Kentucky. She won in the general election on November 8, 2022.
Biography
Duncan earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kentucky and graduated from the University of Louisville's Rank I Administration and Supervision program. She taught at Southern High School and was a teacher and assistant principal at Fairdale High School. She has served two terms as an at-large director on the Kentucky School Boards Association and is a member of the National School Boards Association.[1]
Elections
2022
See also: Jefferson County Public Schools, Kentucky, elections (2022)
General election
General election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 5
Incumbent Linda Duncan defeated Gregory Puccetti and Matthew Singleton in the general election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 5 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Linda Duncan (Nonpartisan) | 55.3 | 11,384 |
 | Gregory Puccetti (Nonpartisan) | 26.6 | 5,470 | |
| Matthew Singleton (Nonpartisan) | 17.0 | 3,502 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 1.1 | 222 | ||
| Total votes: 20,578 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 5
Incumbent Linda Duncan won election in the general election for Jefferson County Public Schools Board of Education District 5 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Linda Duncan (Nonpartisan) | 100.0 | 16,088 |
| Total votes: 16,088 (100.00% precincts reporting) | |||
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2014
The election in Jefferson County featured four seats up for general election on November 4, 2014. There was no primary election. District 1 incumbent Diane Porter ran unopposed. District 3 incumbent Debbie Wesslund chose not to seek re-election, leading to a five-way race between challengers Stephanie Horne, Jan Scholtz, Angela Moorin, Lee Bailey and Louis Scarpellini. District 5 incumbent Linda Duncan ran against David Hittle and Richard O. Brown, and District 6 incumbent Carol A. Haddad faced John DeFazio, Lisa Willner and Patrick Hughes.
Results
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nonpartisan |  Linda Duncan Incumbent |
63.9% | 12,089 | |
| Nonpartisan | Richard O. Brown | 23.8% | 4,507 | |
| Nonpartisan | David Hittle | 11.7% | 2,215 | |
| Nonpartisan | Write-in votes | 0.6% | 120 | |
| Total Votes | 18,931 | |||
| Source: Jefferson County Clerk, "Official 2014 General Election Results," November 14, 2014 | ||||
Funding
State law did not require campaign finance reporting if contributions or expenditures did not exceed $1,000 in an election cycle.[2]
Endorsements
Duncan was endorsed by Better Schools Kentucky, the PAC of the Jefferson County Teachers Association, and The Courier-Journal.[3][4]
2010
| Jefferson County Public Schools, District 5 General Election, 4-year term, 2010 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Nonpartisan | Linda Duncan Incumbent |
100% | 12,384 | |
| Total Votes | 12,384 | |||
| Source: Jefferson County Clerk, "2010 General Election Results," accessed September 8, 2014 | ||||
Campaign themes
2022
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Linda Duncan did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2014
In response to a survey published by WLKY, Duncan answered several questions outlining her campaign themes and vision.
| “ | List 3 reasons voters should elect you: Voters should re-elect me because of the progress our schools have made during my time on the school board and my commitment to continue that progress.. I call this the ABC’s of my service on the board. Over the past eight years, achievement, the A, has steadily improved, even with the introduction of the very difficult Common Core standards. This past year, we reached an 80.6% graduation rate, highest I ever recall, and had 52% of our seniors meeting college-readiness and career-readiness benchmarks. The district’s average overall ACT score improved a full point to 19.1, and remember, that is with every student taking the ACT. Additionally, every group served in this district improved in its percent scoring Proficient on state tests. We are making progress in addressing the barriers, the B, poverty imposes on our students – barriers such as inadequate food, inadequate medical care, inadequate early childhood education, and growing family instability. With 67% of our kids qualifying for free and reduced lunch, we have added many supports for nutrition, including Blessings in a Backpack, the Fruit and Vegetable Grant, Breakfast in the Classroom, After-school meals when kids stay for extended learning, summer meals served at certain school sites and the summer Bus Cafes that deliver lunch to hundreds of kids each day across the Metro area. Most recently, 95 schools have qualified for a federal program that provides free breakfast and lunch for all students attending these schools. We are attempting to address medical needs through the placement of nurses in our highest-needs elementary schools and with schools having students with specific medical needs, now up to 23, and up to 20 mental health counselors available to serve more than one school’s needs for that support. We are expanding facilities for Early Childhood Education, having opened the brand new Unseld Early Childhood Center on T. J. Middle’s campus and purchasing the Presbyterian Community Center to serve pre-schoolers. Louisville Linked is a major online effort to tie the needs of our students with community resources that can meet those needs for such things as glasses or getting power turned back on at a residence. The C in my ABC’s stands for Choices for students and families rapidly expanding. We have regular schools with special programs, choice among six or seven schools clustered closer together, magnet schools, traditional schools, alternative schools such as Phoenix School now housed at Myers, Liberty High School, Westport and South Park TAPP schools, 7-12 at Valley and Waggener, 6th grade Academy at Frost, an all-girls and all-boys middle schools, five-star high schools supported by Ford NGL grant, and four schools of innovation that will be phasing in over the next few years. All of these choices have developed since 2006 when I joined the Board and represent the work I and my colleagues on the board have overseen. What are the most important issues facing JCPS? Our biggest issue is funding. In 1991, the state provided 54% of our funding. Over the past several years, that has shrunk to their providing about 33% of our funding, leaving Jeff County taxpayers to pay 67% of our budget. With 102,000 students, now 67% living n poverty, our needs have grown tremendously, but state budget cuts to textbooks, PD, Safe School efforts, Extended School Services, Family Resource and Youth Services Centers, and inadequate support for special needs kids and at-risk kids coming from the Federal government AND with state mandates requiring we pay 3% of retired teacher health insurance AND salary increases for employees, we have steep revenue mountains to climb, not to forget increasing costs for expanding Early Childhood Education So funding presents a huge challenge ahead of us. Another big issue is how to effectively support students who return home each day to family instability and even community violence.. We are trying to minimize the impact of family instability on student learning through services accessed at our FRYSC’s, knowing they are stretched to the max trying to help crisis situations that pop up for students and their families, but students need individual, adult support that only comes as a result of mentoring provided by a caring adult. Transition Centers will be helping with mobility issues our high-poverty students face. Every 1 Reads is a part of that mentoring effort at the elementary level, but we need mentors for our middle and high school kids. So – family instability and its affect on our students is and will be a huge issue for us. A third issue is how can we best utilize the handheld technology our kids have access to as a means of addressing the individual academic needs of our students while keeping them safe from abuse of that technology. Where students do not have the hand held devices themselves, we must provide them so that our teachers can use all tools to further the learning of each student. How do we combat misinformation promoted through the media by those who want to privatize education for profit. What is your vision for education in this community? When we put together Vision 2015, that was my vision for education then and still today. My vision is for all our students to graduate prepared to be successful in post-secondary study, training, or a career choice for which they have been trained to assume. Personally, I want them to graduate being healthy, caring, and productive citizens, but healthy and caring have no measures in the accountability system, so we settle for productive and hope we encourage them to be healthy and caring.[5] |
” |
| —WLKY survey (2014)[6] | ||
See also
2022 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Jefferson County Schools, "Board of Education members," accessed September 15, 2014
- ↑ Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, "Candidate Guide Campaign Finance," accessed September 16, 2014
- ↑ WFPL, "JCTA's Political Action Committee Endorses Four Jefferson County School Board Candidates," September 2, 2014
- ↑ The Courier-Journal, "Three for school board," October 12, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ WLKY, "In their own words: Linda Duncan," September 17, 2014
