Schools Chiefs Scrap for Ballot Spotlight
Washington state Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson presents results from the Washington Assessment of Student Learning in Renton, Wash., in this June 8, 2007, file photo. She is seeking a fourth term, against a challenge by Randy Dorn.
—Photograph by Ted S. Warren/AP-File
Heated National Election, Other Statewide Contests Vie for Voters' Attention
The two candidates in the upcoming election for Washington state’s superintendent of schools are battling over education issues that should draw plenty of public interest: the federal No Child Left Behind law, student achievement, testing, school funding, and dropout rates.
But observers doubt that the three-term incumbent, Terry Bergeson, and her opponent, union official Randy Dorn, are making much of a dent on the electorate amid a high-megawatt presidential campaign and a pitched battle for governor.
“The other races are sucking the air out of the room,” David Griffith, a spokesman for the National Association of State Boards of Education, or NASBE, said...
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Correction:
A previous version of this story wrongly reported, based on incorrect information from the League of Education Voters, in Seattle, that the group had Washington State schools chief Terry Bergeson’s election bid in 2004. The league did not endorse Ms. Bergeson.
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