In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools
handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.
Implementing these school choice programs would take years, and much of the reduction in the public
teacher force would be
handled through attrition (the
retirement of current
teacher's and not replacing them).