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Gilmore pledges 4000 new teachers for Virginia schools
Gov-elect Jim Gilmore promises to hire 4,000 new teachers with $200 million over four years, amid crowded schools. Trailers house classrooms in districts like Chesterfield, where Alberta Smith Elementary runs six third-grade classes and four fourth-grade classes in portable rooms, highlighting space shortages and debate over state funding for school construction.
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Richmond
Jim Gilmore
Del-l-Earl Dickinson
D-Louisa An
House Appropriations Committee
Gilmore
Mark Miner
Alan Diamonstein
Newport News
Miner
Laura Musselman
Alberta Smith
Chesterfield County