Debate over statewide teachers health care contract is back

Rep. David Sharpe, D-Bristol, chair of the House Committee on Education, at a meeting of the committee on Feb. 14, 2018. Photo by Bob LoCicero/VTDigger
The issue that led to a veto session last spring is back: a statewide teacher health care contract.
Last week, Rep. Jim Harrison R-North Chittenden, planned to offer an amendment to a school spending bill that would require a study group to figure out how to implement a statewide teacher health care contract. Harrison pulled the measure when Rep.