Senate Declines to Immediately Take Up Teacher Raises

[TexasTowelie]

The West Virginia Senate has decided not to immediately consider a bill to raise pay for teachers, school service workers and state police.

The Republican-led Senate on Saturday, Feb. 23, rejected a motion to take up the bill that the House of Delegates passed Friday.

Instead, the Senate referred the bill to its education committee and then the finance committee with two weeks left in the regular session.

Gov. Jim Justice asked the Senate to pass the bill "as soon as possible." Justice requested the raises last fall.

Read more: http://www.wvpublic.org/post/senate-declines-immediately-take-teacher-raises#stream/0

[Staph]

1. Not a smart move!

West Virginia teachers are primed and ready to walk out again, if the Senate doesn't get their act together. And there are a lot more teachers in West Virginia than coal miners!