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By Hoppy Kercheval
WV MetroNews
The House Finance Committee Wednesday tried to straighten out a pay raise plan for school teachers and service workers that was botched in the House Education Committee two days earlier.
Finance Committee members switched the raise package back to a one-year $1,000 across the board increase for teachers, from a three-year $6,000 raise approved by the Education Committee.
The $6,000 raise plan surprised key lawmakers, the teacher...
By Jessica Lilly
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
The Senate recently passed the “Move to Improve Act” which could change the daily grind in state classrooms. The bill is in response to the Healthy Lifestyles Act, which was passed by the legislature in 2005 without a mechanism to assure implementation. Lawmakers say they’re trying to address an epidemic of childhood obesity in West Virginia.
Children and teens spend more than half of their waking hours at school.
...By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Education leaders hope the state's implementation of Project 24, a digital learning initiative, could eliminate snow days as we know them.
The way state Board of Education member Mike Green sees it, the project could mean a school system facing an inordinate number of snow days -- like many did this year -- would not have to cancel classes.
"Instead of the scrawl going across the bottom of the screen...
By Bishop Sandra Steiner Ball
For The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- This is the time of year when we decide on West Virginia's priorities through legislation and the budget process. There is no higher priority for the state than the wellbeing of West Virginia's youngest children. Funding early childhood education is not only the right thing to do, it's a smart investment for the state.
The governor's proposed budget cuts early childhood programs, including home-...
By Jeff Jenkins
WV MetroNews
A Senate bill aimed at giving teachers a modest raise took a significant turn Monday when the House Education Committee proposed a far steeper pay hike.
The Senate bill included only an $837 across-the-board raise for teachers, but the House committee changed that to a three-year package totaling $6,000. The first year would see teachers earning an additional $1,000, the second year $2,000 and the third year $3,000.
The committee also...