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State education department delivers budget
By Samuel Speciale
Education reporter Despite projected spending that will top $2 billion, West Virginia Department of Education officials say state funding for the next fiscal year will be at a five-year low.
The budget, which calls for nearly $2 billion in state general funds and an additional $500 million in lottery and federal money, was the topic of a lengthy two-hour discussion on Wednesday between State...
Teachers want to unite, sue over retirement investment
By Ryan Quinn, The Charleston Gazette
Attorneys argued from about 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday about whether possibly more than 4,100 current and former West Virginia school employees can band together in a lawsuit against a company that allegedly misled them into investing retirement savings into a plan that didn’t perform as well as the traditional state Teachers’ Retirement System.
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By Samuel Speciale
Charleston Daily Mail
State senators who drafted a resolution urging Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin to fill vacancies on the West Virginia Board of Education said Tuesday they expect the governor to make an appointment soon.
The state Senate Education Committee intended to pass the resolution Tuesday, but state Sen. Dave Sypolt, R-Preston, withdrew it when he learned Tomblin is planning to announce his appointment in the coming days. Sypolt is the committee’s...
By Shauna Johnson
WV MetroNews
CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Even though Governor Earl Ray Tomblin is proposing no pay raises for teachers in the coming year, lawmakers are still expected to have a teacher pay raise proposal to consider during the ongoing Regular Legislative Session.
Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, said a bill will soon be introduced at the State House that, if approved, would put into state code yearly increases to take the...
By Phil Kabler
The Charleston Gazette
Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin proposed a $4.77 billion 2015-16 West Virginia budget Wednesday that includes no tax increases and essentially no pay raises for state or public school employees.
For the first time since the State Budget Office has prepared six-year budget projections, the proposed budget reduces spending in the state’s base budget by nearly $40 million.
The budget also calls for dipping into the Revenue Shortfall...