By PHIL KABLER
Charleston Gazette-Mail
(Gazette-Mail photo by Craig Hudson)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — With rumblings of teacher walkouts and possible strikes over soaring PEIA health insurance premiums and what some have termed “insulting” 1 percent pay raise proposals, Senate Democrats are offering to sweeten the deal, offering two possible amendments to the governor’s pay raise bill (Senate Bill 267).
One proposed amendment would give teachers a 3 percent overall pay raise, or about $1,212, this year, followed by the four consecutive 1 percent annual raises currently in the bill. Currently, the bill provides a 1 percent pay raise for teachers this year.
As an alternative, the Democrats have a second amendment pending that would raise salaries for starting teachers by $6,000, and would “smooth out” raises for teachers with more experience to avoid bumping salaries for new hires above longer-serving teachers.
That smoothing effect would work out to about a $2,000 raise for teachers with bachelor’s degrees and 10 years’ experience, and to about a $1,000 raise for those teachers with 15 years’ experience.
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