CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Many West Virginia public school students were at loose ends again Friday, with their classrooms closed for a seventh straight class day as teachers fought for pay raises. The state Senate’s Republican majority refused Thursday to take up legislation to give them a 5 per cent pay raise after four years without one. “That budget will also have to have whatever we do for pay raises … and all the other host of things that we need to be able to manage,” Blair said. She told the Charleston Gazette-Mail that legislators had already passed a fiscally responsible pay raise package and the higher proposed raise was a political ploy. West Virginia teachers and service personnel, noting that they were among the lowest paid in the country, walked off the job Feb. 22.

Source: National Post March 02, 2018 03:33 UTC