A guest article by Liv Finne from her blog at The Washington Policy Center In this recent post at Smarter Government, former state Attorney General Rob McKenna said moving to statewide teacher bargaining is the only rational choice for answering the McCleary challenge. Rob says since McCleary requires the state to assume the full cost of teacher pay, the state should take over from local school districts the responsibility for bargaining teachers’ contracts. Rob and I agree on many education issues, but on this matter I must respectfully disagree. Statewide collective bargaining is not the only rational answer to McCleary. Rob has accepted the McCleary premise that the state … [Read more...]