WV teachers, staff learn jobs are cut while lawmakers stall immediate school funding fixes

By: Amelia Ferrell Knisely

Outlets: West Virginia Watch

Published: March 1, 2026

Words: 1,279

Last Updated: 1 week, 3 days ago

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Across West Virginia, teachers and staff are learning their jobs have been cut due to dire school finances. While reduction in force letters are going out, lawmakers haven’t signed off on changing the school funding formula for next year that could give more money to counties.

Tracy Moss, 36, was surprised in February to learn her full-time job as a librarian at a small, rural school in Cedar Grove, West Virginia, had been slashed to …

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