Teacher beats West Virginia Senate president after protests
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) ” West Virginia teachers whose protests sparked a national wave of unrest took to chanting ‘Ditch Mitch’ as they descended on the Capitol.Ditch him they did.West Virginia Senate President Mitch Carmichael fell in stunning defeat to small-town elementary school teacher Amy Nichole Grady in the state’s primary Tuesday night, following back-to-back years of strikes in which teachers packed into the state Capitol and made the powerful Republican their chief […]
