One of his money - saving ideas is to cut $ 2 billion in state spending by shifting teacher pension costs to school districts. (teacherpensions.org)
This proposed budget would reduce Bridgeport's ECS Allocation by $ 26,000,000, eliminate $ 5,000,000 in the Special Education Excess Cost Grant, and add $ 13,000,000 in Teacher Pension costs with a total reduction in our budget of $ 43,779,868. (jonathanpelto.com)
As a result of inaction from the state to address this unfair burden on CPS, the District had to take money from the classroom to cover rising teacher pension costs. (cps.edu)