Superintendent Jim Merrill is asking the Board of Commissioners for $ 39 million in local funding, with about $ 1.5 million directed
toward hiring more teachers, assistant teachers and special education experts.
For the most part though, the unions are still throwing most of their money and manpower
toward the Democrats, who have also supported policies they like — including a bill to
hire nearly 300,000
more teachers, which was scuttled by Republicans in Congress.