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The Roanoke County school board is planning to cut health care coverage for school bus drivers–you know, those folks who work a split shift for not much money–because Republicans in the Commonwealth of Virginia’s General Assembly have chosen to remove the “common” from “Commonwealth.”
The Roanoke Times’s Dan Casey has some suggestions for the drivers. Here’s my favorite; follow the link for the rest:
The first is part-time delegates and senators in the Virginia General Assembly. Those are the people who’ve cut state support to public education and forced school boards into the position of cutting bus drivers’ benefits.
The second is positions on the Roanoke County Board of Supervisors. Those part-timers are eligible for full-time health benefits, too. They’re the ones who’ve been avoiding tax increases that would help fund continued benefits for other part-timers.