Sentences with phrase «teacher pensions raise»

What's more, there is no evidence that teacher pensions raise teacher quality overall.

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Teachers are already paying more, the normal pension age has been raised to 65 for new entrants and employer contributions have been capped.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

Compounding the rising generosity of pension benefit formulas is the decline of interest rates on low - risk investments, which raises the cost of providing teachers with a fixed, guaranteed pension benefit.

MichaelPetrilli That's because Joel and Randi agreed to unaffordable raises and pension deals for teachers.

Legislators raised teacher contributions to the pension plan from 8 percent of salary to 14.5 percent today.

It also raises the question of why teacher pension plans are invested in hedge funds at all.

In this paper, authors Marguerite Roza and Jessica Jonovski model the impacts of late - term raises on teacher pension obligations showing that on average each dollar raise triggers $ 10 to...

Teachers» Pensions and the Overgrazed Commons On March 26, 2015 Governing published this commentary by Marguerite Roza and Michael Podgursky on how big raises to teachers nearing retirement is a recipe for letting pension debt get out of Teachers» Pensions and the Overgrazed Commons On March 26, 2015 Governing published this commentary by Marguerite Roza and Michael Podgursky on how big raises to teachers nearing retirement is a recipe for letting pension debt get out of teachers nearing retirement is a recipe for letting pension debt get out of control.

On the whole, teachers across the nation have strung together an impressive series of victories, including salary raises, pension reforms, and school funding increases.

The city agreed in the 1980s to indefinitely pick up most of the teachers» pension costs in exchange for lower pay raises.

These required pension contributions will likely constrain the district from spending money on anything else, including field trips, classroom supplies, extra services for high - need students, technology, and raises, which is unfortunate because our teachers remain underpaid compared to the average across Alameda County school districts.

The authors examine the link between teachers» pension incentives and workforce quality and find no evidence to suggest that the incentives raise quality.

Following a 13 - day statewide strike among West Virginia teachers last month which culminated in an across - the - board 5 percent raise, teachers in Arizona have conducted a series demonstrations demanding higher pay, while Kentucky teachers have rallied to protest proposed cuts to their pensions.

The pension contribution offset some past pay raises for Madison teachers.

Claypool, however, noted that teachers would get raises under the rejected contract proposal, and contended that even with the pension pickup phaseout, they would come out ahead.

This finding reinforces what officials with the Milwaukee teachers union had long argued, that the prospect of future «step» raises and pension plans helped the school district to retain younger teachers.

With an average salary of $ 76,000 (not including employee benefits or pensions), Chicago teachers were already among the highest paid in the nation and the new deal included a 7 percent raise over three years, with additional raises for experience and education.

Meanwhile year - long exposes by newspapers such as the Sacramento Bee into the high cost of so - called pension spiking, or the practice of allowing teachers and bureaucrats nearing retirement to get double - digit pay raises in their final years of work in order to gain even fatter pensions, has also led to a state investigation, once again reminding families that they pay the price for 3,090 teachers (as of 2010) getting more than $ 100,000 annually in pension annuities.

In Kentucky, a battle over educators» pension benefits has raised the possibility of a teachers» strike there, too.

That includes $ 10 million from raising the bottle tax from 2 cents to 5 cents, $ 12 million in savings from a recalculation of the teacher pension plan, and $ 1.6 million in revenue from a planned slots casino.

Last week the New York State Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS), which provides a defined benefit pension plan to public school teachers and administrators outside of New York City, announced it was raising the required employer contribution rate * from 16.25 to 17.53 percent of Teachers» Retirement System (NYSTRS), which provides a defined benefit pension plan to public school teachers and administrators outside of New York City, announced it was raising the required employer contribution rate * from 16.25 to 17.53 percent of teachers and administrators outside of New York City, announced it was raising the required employer contribution rate * from 16.25 to 17.53 percent of payroll.

For example, a teacher in Iowa, a state with strong fiscal health and a substantial surplus, recently discovered that her pension contributions were recently raised to cover a multi-billion dollar shortfall in the state's teacher pension fund.

Late - career teacher salary raises can dramatically affect state unfunded pension liabilities

These numbers are rising and moving to the right of the graph; during the recent recession, 12 states made it more difficult for teachers to qualify for a pension by raising their vesting requirement.

The unions want teacher raises and no changes to pensions, but the city is broke and facing massive budget shortfalls.

Without pension debts, states could raise salaries enough that teachers wouldn't need to spend their free hours waitressing or driving for Uber.

Here is a late entry for consideration: a study out of Georgetown examining the impact on pension obligations of substantial, late - career raises for teachers.

This fight over teacher pension funding raises an important philosophical question: Does money spent on teacher retirement count as education funding?

Our sober policy analyses have attemped to raise the alarm about how rising pension costs are affecting teachers and students, but perhaps nothing presents it in starker fashion than seeing the potential cuts to school district services.

Later this week the board of the California State Teachers Retirement System, or CalSTRS, will forward to the Legislature a report laying out options for raising higher contributions into the pension system to ensure its long - term viability.

It's a double whammy for classroom teachers because teachers will be required to increase their pension contributions, eroding whatever raise the union negotiates with the district, and the additional dollars districts spend on pension debt are dollars that can't be spent elsewhere.

Another word regarding Edison Learning (pg 13 of your report): Jeb Bush used the Florida teacher pension money to bail out Edison, a company that never succeeded in what it said it could do: raise student scores for less money: