The rising cost of
maintaining teacher retirement...
The rising cost of
maintaining teacher retirement systems is part of the problem.
So much so, in fact, that the ability to
maintain teacher retirement benefits ranked above salary, class size, and child care availability in teachers who had left the classroom's decisions to return.
Not exact matches
The increase would barely enable districts to
maintain services, officials say, at a time when student needs and mandated costs for employee salaries, health care premiums and
teacher retirements are on the rise.
To build and
maintain a qualified
teacher workforce in today's labor market, states should fundamentally reform their
retirement benefit systems.
Given the large and growing costs associated with
maintaining teacher pension systems, and the lack of evidence regarding their efficacy, experimentation by traditional and charter schools with alternative
retirement benefit structures would be useful.