Not exact matches
By
changing the conversation to all Americans, Weingarten is trying to avoid a conversation specifically about
teacher retirement benefits.
They found that even despite recent
changes, many state
teacher retirement systems are outdated and struggle to provide workers with an adequate
benefit that meets the needs of today's workforce.
Looking back on your articles regarding Charter Schools in which
teachers don't have to be certified and the Governor's proposed
changes to make them the new privatized public school system, does this mean those
teachers would also qualify for pension and
retirement benefits?
The protests there have explicitly focused on prospective negative
changes to
teachers»
retirement benefits, but educators have made it clear that better
teacher compensation is intertwined with school quality.
Despite these
changes, state pension funds fail to provide all new
teachers with sufficient
retirement benefits.
This paper uses a policy
change in California to show that the extreme rewards and penalties built into existing defined
benefit teacher pension systems do affect
teacher retirement behavior.