( Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP / Craig Hudson )Union leaders for teachers are celebrating a move by the West Virginia House of Delegates to effectively kill a complex education bill that prompted a strike. Teachers’ unions disliked components of the bill that would have created the state’s first charter schools and allow education savings accounts for parents to pay for private school. The West Virginia House of Delegates has effectively killed a complex education bill disliked by striking teachers’ unions. Teachers’ unions oppose complex legislation under consideration that would create the state’s first charter schools and allow education savings accounts for parents to pay for private school. Almost a year to the day after West Virginia teachers went on strike that launched a national movement, they’re doing it again.

Source: thestar February 19, 2019 12:25 UTC