Teacher Pay; Qeo As Part of a Bigger Plan

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Three letters - QEO - get the blood of Wisconsin's public school teachers to boil. And no wonder. The initials stand for "qualified economic offer," the dry name of a legal device that has depressed teacher pay.

Gov. Jim Doyle - Democrat and ally of the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the state's chief umbrella teachers union - has tried to rescind the QEO in the past. The Republican-controlled Legislature wouldn't hear of it. Since then, one chamber, the Senate, has shifted Democratic. And rescission of the QEO is an idea whose time may be near.

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Teacher Pay; Qeo As Part of a Bigger Plan

But any such step mustn't take place in isolation. The QEO is part of an intricate financing mechanism for schools, whose mos...

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