Asia Norton
Asia Norton was an at-large member of the Newark Public Schools Board of Education in New Jersey. Norton assumed office in 2018. Norton left office on September 18, 2023.
Norton ran for re-election for an at-large seat of the Newark Public Schools Board of Education in New Jersey. Norton won in the general election on April 20, 2021.
Norton and fellow candidates Dawn Haynes and Yambeli Gomez ran in the 2018 election as a candidate slate called Moving Newark Schools Forward.[1] The slate was backed by Newark Mayor Ras J. Baraka.
Biography
Leading up to the 2018 election, Norton was a kindergarten teacher in Newark Public Schools. She earned a master's degree from Columbia University and majored in African studies for her undergraduate degree. Her volunteer experience includes working with AmeriCorps.[2]
Elections
2021
See also: Newark Public Schools, New Jersey, elections (2021)
General election
General election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education on April 20, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Dawn Haynes (Nonpartisan) | 29.9 | 3,617 |
| ✔ | Asia Norton (Nonpartisan) | 28.2 | 3,411 | |
| ✔ |  | Vereliz Santana (Nonpartisan) | 27.4 | 3,311 |
 | Yolanda Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 5.6 | 676 | |
| Nadirah Brown (Nonpartisan) | 4.8 | 577 | ||
| Phillip Wilson (Nonpartisan) | 4.1 | 500 | ||
| Total votes: 12,092 | |||
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2018
General election
General election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education (3 seats)
The following candidates ran in the general election for Newark Public Schools Board of Education on April 17, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Dawn Haynes (Nonpartisan) | 26.9 | 5,289 |
| ✔ | Asia Norton (Nonpartisan) | 21.4 | 4,199 | |
| ✔ | Yambeli Gomez (Nonpartisan) | 19.2 | 3,770 | |
 | Jameel Ibrahim (Nonpartisan) | 5.3 | 1,038 | |
 | Che' J.T. Colter (Nonpartisan) | 5.2 | 1,022 | |
 | Denise Cole (Nonpartisan) | 5.1 | 1,010 | |
| Omayra Molina (Nonpartisan) | 4.6 | 895 | ||
| Yolanda Johnson (Nonpartisan) | 3.8 | 749 | |
| Marcus Allen (Nonpartisan) | 2.7 | 531 | ||
| Khalil Hannah (Nonpartisan) | 2.0 | 393 | ||
| Johnnie Lattner (Nonpartisan) | 1.9 | 380 | ||
| Robert House (Nonpartisan) | 1.1 | 207 | ||
 | Barbara Anne Todish (Nonpartisan) | 0.7 | 142 | |
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.2 | 31 | ||
| Total votes: 19,656 | |||
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Campaign themes
2021
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Asia Norton did not complete Ballotpedia's 2021 Candidate Connection survey.
2018
| “ | I want to be on the school board because I was that Newark student who was invisible in the system. I got all the way to fifth grade not knowing how to read. My mother wouldn’t let the system fail her daughter and she fought for me. She looked for schools that would give me the education that I deserved. No child should be invisible in a system that’s purpose is to help them grow. As a board member, I’ll bring the heart of an educator given my years in the classroom and being a third generation Newark teacher; the mind of a policymaker given my training at Columbia University, but most importantly, the spirit of a Newarker because it is my struggle that gives me the strength to fight for our students here in the City of Newark. To fight for all who go Invisible.[3] | ” |
| —Asia Norton (2018)[2] | ||
See also
2021 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Moving Newark Schools Forward, "Home," accessed March 9, 2018
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Moving Newark Schools Forward, "Candidates," accessed March 9, 2018
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
