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By Jeff Jenkins in News | March 09, 2014
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state legislature gave final approval Saturday night to an across-the-board $1,000 teacher pay raise.
“Finally,” West Virginia Education Association President Dale Lee told MetroNews once the bill got the passing vote in the state Senate. The proposal had several ups and downs during the past 60 days.
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin originally proposed a two percent raise for teachers and service personnel. The...
Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia concluded its 60-day legislative session Saturday. Here is a look at some highlights from the two months of lawmaking.
Chemical Spill Bill
Three days into the legislative session, Freedom Industries spilled chemicals into the water supply for 300,000 people. A water-use ban lasted up to 10 days, and the issue consumed lawmakers for the next two months.
By adding inspections at many above-ground storage tanks...
Marla Pisciotta, Cumberland Times-News
ROMNEY, W.Va. — Eleven child care workers at the West Virginia Schools for the Deaf and the Blind are upset, saying their jobs are in jeopardy due to their education.
A mandatory meeting was called this week by superintendent Lynn Boyer.
The child care workers, who wished to remain anonymous, said they were under the impression that the meeting was to get input regarding changes on the campus.
“We’ve been told all along...
Legislature mentality
Year after year, Tea Party values are carried into the West Virginia Legislature. It's sad — and damaging to the state — when lawmakers ignore beneficial proposals while they boost pistol-carrying and impede desperate girls wanting to end pregnancies. Too many mountain politicians let themselves be swayed by the far-right "God, guns and gays" agenda.
For example, after last year's massacre of school children in Connecticut, West Virginia legislators...
By Mackenzie Mays
The Charleston Gazette
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's teachers unions are protesting a dress code proposed by the Kanawha County school board that would regulate when teachers can wear blue jeans, and would ban shorts, T-shirts, flip-flops and some other clothing items.
The first draft of the policy -- unveiled in special session Thursday -- also requires hair and nails to be clean and neatly groomed, and beards and mustaches "to be neatly trimmed...