West Virginia Elementary Schools

The changes of PEIA will injure the education quality to Western Virginia

The movement by the Counsel of Finance of Agency of Public Employees to eliminate the advantages of services of health of retired one for the employees of the future states the more difficult facts to keep the quality educators in the state of Western Virginia.

All levels of education will suffer ae" garden of children to the university.

Follow a 7-2 vote by the counsel of PEIA on the summer, all employees of the state engaged after July 30, 2010 will not receive assistance in to pay their insurance premiums disease on the retirement.

While such a decision can seem insignificant to a lot of educators entering the system now, the more observer among them ae" including the education of major current WVU ae" will foresee the costly consequences for their future.

The movement will mean dollar thousands per year to the professors on the retirement.

"(The state employees) would have the salary 100 percent of their insurance premiums. In the dollars of today, they will have the salary about $1,000 by the month," said the Epede of Joshua, the political director for the branch of Western Virginia of the American Federation of member of Professors and vote of the Counsel of Finance of PEIA.

"Only the cover can be a little more inexpensive than $1,000, but family cover will be more near to $1,500," it said.

For the professors with the family cover, the decision of PEIA could mean $18,000 of their pockets every year until they become eligible for the Disease insurance.

This projection does not include inflation of services of health, that, according to the National Coalition on the health Services, was about four times the normal rate of inflation on the past decade.

The decision of PEIA will help reduces the debt originates of the non capitalized future responsibilities for the advantages of post job of the state, that is now to $7 billion.

"Basically, the economies would come from not subsidizing finally employees once they take the retirement," said the holley-marron of Diane, Western Virginia Department of Administration, through the e-mail.

Currently, the retired ones pay roughly 30 percent of their premiums of health in the retirement ae" the remaining majority is furnished by the state.

For the professors and the employed others of the state, such advantages a long time were used to the place and places increases of salary.

According to the Epede, advantage elimination will affect Western Virginia University and the other public universities in the state.

"The public employee, themselves they are professor, the personnel of service of school, the professor or the member of classified personnel to WVU... will not receive assistance to pay their insurance premiums," it said.

This means that any professor that takes a gap of teaching of the University with the project to return after 2010 will not receive also the advantages of health of retirement.

Which begs the questions if the project of University of to engage 100 members of additional faculty in the next one three years will be possible.

, Will Do more the graduates of education of WVU, does facing with the highest salaries of departure and the better advantages in the close states, elect to remain in this state to teach?

With the departure salaries to the under of $30,000 and no services of health of retirement plans, that seems not very probable.

The this is at this point that most of types anti- education throw outside their argument totalment idiot that "the professors should not teach for money".

While such a complaint should be met with a quick clacking to the face, I will say this: The professors should teach not only for money. Unless of course they are bad to the maths. Then absolutely, to do it for money.

The salaries of professor that do more competitive with the means of private industry that more consummate individuals and more intelligent (those with the highest value some walked) will consider the teaching instead of the occasions of private sector more lucrative.

While eliminating a crucial advantage of retirement while to offer the salary of low level, this state will continue to employ professors that become professors because they were incapable to do a lot of others. Only, the state will engage more of these individuals.

But on this point, I do a digression.

This change will affect not only professors but social workers and oversees officers also. Some children need all these individuals during their time to the school.

And the this is a shame negatively to influence these valid resources.

The date back to entry in force of the change is also the value notes. The Fact that it will injure only future hirings, that have not political say in the current question, the brands it easier for this change to pass without major recourse of the organized work.

And thus moved away, or the American Federation of Professors or the Association of Education of Western Virginia expressed the interest in a strike.

Why to do or when the vast majority of their current adhesion would remain unchanged?

For the education quality to Western Virginia to meet ae" or, with hope to surpass ae" the national averages, we must increase the advantages of becomes professor in this state.

Remove an important encouragement to becomes professor in the brands of Western Virginia it less appealing to teach here. And them students will suffer.

When asked if the state will be competitive in the new hiring professors, the Epede said, "It it very difficult fact. We have a difficult maths of hiring of time, the science, the teaching for the students suffering from difficulties of apprenticeship and the English professors. You will see more out-of-the field professors in the class room, and all knowledges that that is not how you increase the student accomplishment".

The better advantages mean a better reserve of educational candidates. That, coupled with the highest responsibility for all, will mean the better education in this state.

Without him, that knows that the future will hold for the education in this state.

As a County of Kanawha the professor of elementary school said me, "This well being very the beginning of the end for the public education to Western Virginia".

Unless the legislative body or the step of governor in, the resolution of PEIA will be held, and Western Virginia public education will continue to be the second ae" or mediocre.