West Virginia teachers said they would return to their schools Thursday after two days out on strike. Their announcement came late Wednesday when a bill pushing charter schools and education savings accounts died in the state legislature.

The teachers successfully beat back a legislative effort that they viewed as a push to privatize public education. The strike came almost exactly a year after a nine-day walkout that helped create a wave of teacher protests around the country.

Dale Lee, president of the West Virginia Education Association, one of the three educator unions leading the strike, said in a Facebook video Wednesday night that teachers had accomplished what they set out to do.

“It was clearly a victory for our students, our public schools and for you,” Lee said in his address to members. He added, “It is time to return to work.”

Source: West Virginia Teachers Went On Strike And Won Again | HuffPost