W. Virginia lawmakers say they want more teachers. But teachers say lawmakers are pushing them away
After two statewide teacher strikes in three years, Senate Education Chairwoman Patricia Rucker, R-Jefferson, stated a goal for this year’s legislative session that sounded too good to be true.
Lawmakers planned, she said, to seek “input directly from all the teachers in the entire state.”
“We want to hear from them,” Rucker said during a legislative preview event earlier this month. “What is working, what is not. We want to know from the boots on the ground suggestions for improvements.”
One priority, she said, was a problem legislators have struggled with for years: how to make sure West Virginia has enough teachers.
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