... school dollars on sports and athletic facilities. It's become such a trademark that when he piped in to ask one school district leader a question about its finances last week, Board President Diane Tatum chided him that it better not be about athletics ...

... I've been here my whole life and when it first started happening, it was kind of scary," McKinley said. School district leaders blame the failure of a 1996 school millage election on backlash against the immigrants. "We think it was a message ...