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Remember, there is no quid pro quo.
Denials aside, there appear to be plenty of connections between Gov. Chris Gregoire’s education reform package and her hopes of building support for a temporary sales tax increase.
Gregoire on Tuesday unveiled bills that will finally add consequences on teachers who get poor evaluations and also begin to use factors other than seniority in teacher layoffs, call-backs, transfers and vacancies. She said sales-tax-hike voters need to know they’re ”making a good investment in an education system that’s improving.”
But she stressed that there is no quid pro quo to trade school reform for business support for a tax effort.