At a recent School Board meeting, Charlottesville City Schools support staff came with a simple message: They cannot afford to live in the city where they work.
Educational support personnel — such as teaching assistants, custodians and school nutritional workers — earn wages so low they cannot survive off them, according to those who spoke at the Feb. 5 School Board meeting.
“A living wage is not a luxury,” Ashlyn Stevens, a City Schools instructional assistant, told the Board at the February meeting. “It’s the minimum.”…