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Hopefully, time will run out on this funding bill
Register- Herald
At first blush, allowing county boards to increase property tax rates to help fund education in their districts seems like a good idea.
After all, if locals are unhappy with the education their kids are getting or not satisfied with whatever share the state sends their way via school aid funding, then there is an answer: they can pay up via a hike in their property tax rate.
But...
WV Senate president: ‘We’re going to run’ governor’s K-12 bill
Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
The chairman of the West Virginia Senate Education Committee abruptly pulled Gov. Jim Justice’s wide-ranging K-12 education bill from his committee’s meeting agenda on Wednesday and said the bill is “dead.”
But after the action and comments by Chairman Kenny Mann, R-Monroe, Wednesday morning, Senate President Mitch Carmichael, R-Jackson, said the bill (...
Both houses pass budgets, but issues lie directly ahead
By Brad McElhinny, WV MetroNews
Of all the numbers associated with the budget bills that passed both houses of the state Legislature on Wednesday, one stands out.
Two thirds.
That’s the number required to override a veto by Gov. Jim Justice, and it doesn’t look like either the Senate or the House of Delegates has it.
The House of Delegates passed its budget bill 58-42 a little after 8 p...
House, Senate likely to pass differing WV budget bills
Phil Kabler, Charleston Gazette Mail
The West Virginia House and Senate are poised Wednesday to pass versions of the 2017-18 state budget that are miles apart from each other and even further from Gov. Jim Justice’s budget proposal, a $4.394 billion budget that requires $224 million in new taxes.
With the Governor’s Office indicating that he will veto either legislative version of the budget,...
WV House Ed rejects bill to nix seniority as No. 1 factor in teacher layoffs
Ryan Quinn, Charleston Gazette-Mail
With seven delegates voting for and 14 against, West Virginia’s House Education Committee on Tuesday rejected a bill that would’ve removed the statewide mandate that public school teachers with the least amount of seniority automatically lose their positions when job cuts are made in a particular teaching area.
The bill (SB 401) said the least...