Will the Democrats eliminate the QEO?

Jason Stein discusses teacher pay caps and the QEO in With Democrats in charge, teacher pay cap could bite the dust:

The QEO law allows school districts to avoid potentially costly arbitration on union contracts as long as they offer teachers a yearly wage and benefit increase of 3.8 percent or more.

Since the law took effect in 1993, the average increase in teachers' salary-and-benefit packages has hovered around 4 percent a year, compared to more than 7 percent in the years immediately preceeding the change.

But the law also bars districts from unilaterally reducing benefits, meaning health insurance costs can eat up much of the allowable increase.

With the current budget deficit and Democrats in charge, it is likely that school funding will be revisited very soon.

"By getting rid of the QEO we'll finally see in Wisconsin a variety of different compensation packages emerge from what we've been locked into for (15) years — depressed teacher salaries, rising benefit costs and nobody very happy with where we're at," Doyle said.

Supporters of the OEO said repealing it would make it impossible for schools to survive under state-imposed revenue caps and would threaten the state's more than decade old system for paying for schools.

Might this be the end of revenue limits altogether?