Recently Ace Parsi, our Democratic candidate for U.S. Representative, visited Harpers Ferry and gave a rousing statement of his reasons for running. Mike Chalmers sat with Ace afterwards and got further details of how his political and social bearings determine his positions on issues. In a few words, those positions are driven by his faith in responsive, human centered government to better people’s lives and build stronger communities.
The teacher pay crisis in the Eastern Panhandle has a solution often proposed by our local legislators. It’s locality pay. The idea is to pay teachers a wage that they can live in in the counties where it costs more to live. The state legislature can’t or won’t get it done.
It’s almost common knowledge that teachers in West Virginia have it tough. Their pay is poor compared to neighboring states and there are too few of them. Teachers from the Berkeley County Schools sound off about uncredentialed teachers being hired while credentialed teachers leave the state.