The Latest: House advancing bigger teacher pay raises
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on a statewide walkout by teachers in West Virginia over pay and benefits (all times local):6 p.m.
The House Finance Committee has approved an amended bill that would provide average 5 percent pay raises to teachers, school service personnel and state troopers in the coming year.
The chamber's Republican majority immediately took up the bill on the House floor.
The 5 percent is the raise Gov. Jim Justice proposed in a negotiated deal with unions intended to end the statewide walkout by West Virginia's public school teachers.