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Teacher pay raise now at $1,000

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The House Finance Committee Wednesday tried to straighten out a pay raise plan for school teachers and service workers that was botched in the House Education Committee two days earlier.

Finance Committee members switched the raise package back to a one-year $1,000 across the board increase for teachers, from a three-year $6,000 raise approved by the Education Committee.

The $6,000 raise plan surprised key lawmakers, the teacher unions and Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, who proposed a more modest increase at the start of the session of two percent.  It also put teacher organizations in the awkward position of supporting a scaled back raise to ensure passage.

Tomblin and lawmakers have been working on finding the money in the budget for a raise of two percent, $1,000 or $837–the plan has shifted several times during the session–without raising taxes.  A larger raise would be impossible to fund without a tax increase.

The legislation provides for a two percent across the board raise for school service workers.

The bill now goes to the House floor.  Earlier in the session the Senate voted to increase teacher pay by $837.

 





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