State Pension Systems Or Public School Teachers

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Nearly a million teachers will reach retirement age in the next 9 to 11 years. This report presents a complete state-by-state overview of the retirement programs available to America's teachers. Chapter 1 presents the issues of teacher aging, retirement, and early retirement and asks how school districts might effectively manage the retirement and replacement of teachers. Chapter 2 surveys retirement plans in the 50 states and provides information on how to calculate a teacher's pension, with relevant data by state. Chapter 3 looks at local and state programs to entice teachers to retire early. Empirical methods are used to assess the effectiveness of various plans. Case studies of early retirement incentive plans in six districts show how these plans work. Based on conclusions drawn from these data, school officials are advised on how to create, implement, and evaluate an early retirement program. Chapter 4 calls for a national task force on teacher retirement and argues that the future of the teacher retirement system depends on resolving six related issues: (1) threatened financial viability; (2) lack of consistency between local and state policies; (3) lack of portability of plans; (4) lack of system flexibility in investment and withdrawal of funds for teachers; (5) lack of control by teachers as individuals and as a group; and (6) lack of equity among teachers in various districts. (21 tables, 48 references) (MLF)

Excerpt from Pensions for Public School Teachers: A Report for the Committee on Salaries, Pensions, and Tenure, of the National Education Association The National Education Association's Committee on Salaries, Tenure, and Pensions, appointed in 1911, has published, independently or in cooperation with the United States Bureau of Education, reports on "Teachers' Salaries and Cost of Living" (January, 1918), "The Tangible Rewards of Teaching" (Bulletin 16, U. S. Bureau of Education, 1914), "Salaries of Teachers and School Officers" (Bulletin 81, U. S. Bureau of Education, 1915), and "State Pension Systems for Public School Teachers" (Bulletin 14, U. S. Bureau of Education, 1916). The Committee has also enlisted the cooperation of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching which, in addition to its granting of pensions to university and college professors, has conducted, for a dozen years, comprehensive studies of pensions for teachers, wherever such systems exist. The President of the Foundation, Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, placed at the disposal of the Committee all of this material, together with the services of the Secretary of the Foundation, Dr. Clyde Furst, and his colleague, Dr. I. L. Kandel. These gentlemen have met in extensive conference with the Committee and invited representatives from each state at the meetings of the National Education Association and its Department of Superintendence, at Detroit and New York in 1916, and Atlantic City and Pittsburgh in 1918. The reports which they prepared for these meetings, the meeting at Kansas City in 1917, and the meeting of the National Council of Education at New York in 1916, have been printed in the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Annual Reports of the Carnegie Foundation, which have been sent, without charge, to all teachers who requested them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.