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View: Senate trying to put together pay, PEIA plan ahead of teachers’ walkout

Senate trying to put together pay, PEIA plan ahead of teachers’ walkout

February 19, 2018

Excerpt West Virginia Senate leadership is scrambling to come up with a compromise on pay and PEIA benefits before a scheduled statewide teachers walkout Thursday, but Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, said Monday it’s unlikely the Senate will support more than a 2 percent…

View: With strike talk looming, House rejects larger pay raises for teachers

With strike talk looming, House rejects larger pay raises for teachers

February 12, 2018

Featured Dale Lee (WVEA) Excerpt A bill to provide modest pay raises to teachers, school service personnel and other state employees (Senate Bill 267) advanced to passage stage in the House of Delegates on Monday, after the House rejected costlier options. That…

View: Teachers from southern counties flood Capitol in protest

Teachers from southern counties flood Capitol in protest

February 2, 2018

Featured Joyce Bumbus, C.K. Dolan, Chloe White; Tiffany Sargent; Amelia Mullens; Dale Lee (WVEA); Angie Butcher; Mark Kennedy; Brittany Bauer; Helen Browning; Sam Dobson Excerpt Hundreds of teachers and other public employees from throughout West Virginia filled the Capitol Rotunda Friday morning…

View: Senate rejects larger teacher pay hikes; Justice proposes easing PEIA premiums

Senate rejects larger teacher pay hikes; Justice proposes easing PEIA premiums

February 1, 2018

Excerpt As at least three southern West Virginia counties announced school closures Friday because of planned teacher walkouts, the state Senate Thursday debated at length, but rejected two proposals to increase teacher pay raises beyond the series of 1 percent hikes sought by Gov.…