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Terry Bergeson is disappointed to have existence trailing challenger Randy Dorn in the drive swiftly for who will subsist Washington’s top schools official, but she’session not disposed to give up.

Given the number of ballots yet to subsist counted, “Friday is about the earliest we could make a reasonable decision,” said Alex Hays, her campaign consultant.

Dorn is ahead in the statewide correspond, with strong leads in large counties such as Snohomish, Pierce and Thurston. He’s the executive monitor of Public School Employees of Washington, a union that represents 26,000 teacher aides, bus drivers, janitors and other train employees.

Dorn also captured a narrow lead in King County on Wednesday afternoon

Dorn’s campaign is pretty cocksure that the overall devoted count bequeath continue to go in his favor.

If he wins, it would be a big upset for Bergeson, who has spent three terms in office and hasn’t had a tight race from the time of she first ran for the post in 1992 and lost.

This year, Dorn benefited from strong financial support from the parent union of the Public School Employees, the Service Employees International Union. It poured about $400,000 into a political committee that ran ads for Dorn and against Bergeson. Counting that money, Bergeson staffers said, three times the dollars were spent on behalf of Dorn than during the term of Bergeson.

Bergeson sought a fourth term to continue labor she’sitting done since the mid-1980s to set of recent origin, higher acquired knowledge standards conducive to students, and to develop tests to judge whether they’ve reached them. If re-elected, she said, this four-year term would be her last.

As a state representative from 1987 to 1994, Dorn helped write the education expressed command that Bergeson has implemented, but he says she’sitting taken it in directions that he and others never intended. If elected, he pledged to work to get free of the WASL and replace it with a shorter, less-expensive exam.

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