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West Virginia Senate considers putting pay raise toward PEIA as teacher strike continues
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN and RYAN QUINN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — On Thursday, one week into the statewide public school employee strike, which will continue Friday with public schools in all 55 counties closed, the West Virginia Senate pumped the brakes on a bill that would give teachers, school service[Read More…]
West Virginia Senate sends pay raise measure to finance committee
By MICHAEL ERB The Parkersburg News and Sentinel PARKERSBURG, W.Va. — An increased pay raise for public employees stumbled Thursday in the West Virginia Senate as the Republican majority moved to place that funding in a fund for the state’s insurance agency. An amended House Bill 4145, which was introduced Tuesday[Read More…]
West Virginia teacher pay raise bill heads to Senate committee
By ANDREA LANNOM The Register-Herald CHARLESTON, W.Va. — West Virginia teachers and school personnel elected on Thursday to extend their walkout to a seventh day after the Senate refused to vote on a proposed 5 percent pay raise, assigning the bill to its Finance Committee which did not meet. By[Read More…]
Ohio County Board of Education: School will reopen Monday
The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — Ohio County Superintendent Kim Miller said she fully expects school to be back in session Monday — whether the legislative aspect of the statewide teacher strike is completed or not. During a meeting this morning of the Ohio County Board of Education,[Read More…]
Raleigh County union leader calls pay proposal ‘step in the right direction’
By JORDAN NELSON The Register-Herald BECKLEY, W.Va. — Raleigh County West Virginia Education Association President Wendy Peters says she believes Gov. Jim Justice’s pay raise proposal and PEIA task force promise are steps in the right direction in getting teachers and school personnel back into the classroom. Following a Thursday afternoon meeting attended[Read More…]
Senate Judiciary considers House district bill
By DAVID BEARD The Dominion Post CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A House bill to create 100 single-member House districts is on hold in Senate Judiciary as senators ponder taking the politics out of drawing the new lines. HB 4002, a one-sentence bill, dictates that after the 2020 census, during the reapportionment[Read More…]
West Virginia sports betting bill faces final vote in House of Delegates today
By JOSELYN KING The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — A bill regarding the legalization of sports betting in West Virginia comes up for final passage today in the West Virginia Legislature. The House of Delegates is set to have its third and final reading on Senate Bill 415,[Read More…]
Mason County delegates talk pay raises, PEIA
By BETH SERGENT Point Pleasant Register Editor’s note: Comments for this article received prior to the State Senate’s decision not to bring the House of Delegates’s pay raise bill to the floor on Thursday.) CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The West Virginia House of Delegates passed a 5 percent pay raise for[Read More…]
Southern West Virginia residents react to extended strike
By MATT COMBS The Register-Herald HINTON, W.Va. — Katrena Smith has two students at Summers County High School. With her children at home and school closed, Smith is happy to see the teachers standing up for what they believe in. While given the opportunity for a 5 percent raise, Smith believes that the[Read More…]
