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HUNTINGTON — With the spring semester in the rear-view mirror, local school districts are turning their attention to summer learning as they attempt to make up for lost time in
HUNTINGTON â Cabell County Schools Superintendent Ryan Saxe said there are no plans to shorten the school year, even after a federal disaster declaration approved by President Joe Biden would have allowed the district to do so.
On May 13, Biden approved a disaster declaration for Cabell, Lincoln, Mason, Putnam and Wayne counties in West Virginia following a series of severe winter storms that caused widespread power and internet outages in the region.
Due to the federal declaration, a West Virginia Department of Education policy would have allowed those counties the option to not make up the instructional days that were missed because of the storm.
HUNTINGTON â The Cabell County Board of Education has approved the operating budget for the next fiscal year, which includes a pay increase for all school employees.
The proposed pay raise for professional employees is a 3.26% increase based on the starting teacher salary for a bachelorâs degree with zero years of experience. The raise equates to $1,276 for professionals on a 200-day contract, or $6.38 per day.
For service employees, the pay increase is also 3.26% based on a weighted average of the various service employee pay grades with zero years of experience and equates to $786 per year for employees on a 200-day contract, or $3.93 per day.