Sentences with phrase «teachers accrue benefits»

That's a fundamentally flawed way to look at retirement security, because it discards large numbers of former teachers and ignores the basic facts about how individual teachers accrue benefits over time.

Not exact matches

Focusing instead on offering retirement plans that provide all teachers the opportunity to accrue adequate benefits would be a more realistic and equitable approach.

We suggest several steps that states can take to immediately improve their pension systems, such as allowing teachers to become vested more quickly and accrue benefits more gradually.

If states extended those final salary calculations from 3 or 5 years to 10 or 20 or 30 years, pension benefits would accrue more steadily rather than spiking at the very end of a teacher's career.

Defenders of the defined - benefit structure also argue that it can encourage teachers to enter and remain in the profession over the long term, because to maximize their future pension wealth, they must accrue the maximum years of service and reach the top of their district's pay scale.

As in other states, benefits accrue very slowly for many years, and it isn't until teachers near the state's 35 - year mark that the pension value really starts to climb.

The adjusted data reflect the value of actual pension benefits accrued each year by teachers, not merely what the governments happen to contribute to their pension funds each year.

What benefits might accrue for students, teachers and the state as a whole?

It's not until they get closer to their plan's normal retirement age — usually after 30 years or more for a 25 - year - old teacher — that teachers begin to rapidly accrue benefits.

Milwaukee public school teachers, for example, accrue retiree health benefits worth an extra 17 percent of their salaries each year.

Actuarial valuations show that in 2015, Texas teachers accrued future retiree health benefits equal to an additional 5.9 percent of their wages.

Teachers qualify for very little in the way of retirement benefits during the first half of their career because pension benefits don't accrue evenly.

The simulation estimates the retirement benefits that would accrue to Ohio teachers if they were to have careers that look like college - educated respondents in the national dataset.

My simulation calculates the retirement benefits that would accrue to teachers in the Ohio pension plan whose patterns of employment in the Ohio public schools match those of the NLSY respondents.

For example, a teacher who moves from New Jersey to New York has to change plans and can not continue to accrue benefits.

In New York, for example, benefits accrue in such an uneven pattern that teachers earn roughly $ 3,500 per year of work for the first 20 years of service while earning $ 30,000 per year for teaching years 30 through 38.

All of the pension systems considered here allow retired teachers who are receiving pension payments to continue to work in covered employment on a part - time basis (without accruing additional benefits).

The major benefit has accrued to teachers and students who perceive, as never before, the satisfaction of achieving visible, valuable learning.

The graph below shows how retirement benefits accrue for a Louisiana teacher.

Rhee's heavy - handedness in dealing with the Washington Teacher's Union conveyed her attitude that a non-unionized teacher force would better serve justice for children, as if children would benefit from their teachers lacking the few remaining benefits accrued by collective bargaining, such as nominal job security and shrinking peTeacher's Union conveyed her attitude that a non-unionized teacher force would better serve justice for children, as if children would benefit from their teachers lacking the few remaining benefits accrued by collective bargaining, such as nominal job security and shrinking peteacher force would better serve justice for children, as if children would benefit from their teachers lacking the few remaining benefits accrued by collective bargaining, such as nominal job security and shrinking pensions.

Teacher pensions fit this precisely: their unions have significant influence on state politics, and a promise for pension benefits accrues to members slowly over time.

Nevada should provide much more detailed information to teachers about how their benefits accrue at different points during their careers, as well as information about the opportunity costs related to any contributions made into the system.

In a 2009 study of class sizes in California, published in the Journal of Human Resources, the authors found that the positive achievement benefits that accrue for smaller class sizes were diminished by allowing emergency credentialed teachers into the classroom who had not obtained regular credential coursework and student teaching experiences.

In its place, districts should adopt retirement systems where benefits accrue smoothly, year after year, without sudden, arbitrary jumps late in a teacher's working life.

Much fairer to taxpayers and non-lifer teachers alike is a 401 (k) defined contribution plan in which a teacher's benefit is equal to his own contributions, those of his employer, and whatever earnings the investments accrue.

A Chicago Public Schools teacher who teaches for 15 years accrues negative net benefits because the value of her contributions exceed the pension benefits she will receive in return at retirement.

(F) The provisions of sections 10 - 153a to 10 - 153n, inclusive, [which are the state's collective bargaining laws] shall not apply to any teacher or administrator who is assigned to a commissioner's network school, except (i) that such teacher or administrator shall, for the purposes of ratification of an agreement only, be permitted to vote as a member of the teacher or administrator bargaining unit, as appropriate, for the local or regional board of education in which the commissioner's network school is located, and (ii) insofar as any such provisions protect any entitlement of such teacher or administrator to benefits or leave accumulated or accrued prior to the teacher or administrator being employed in a commissioner's network school.

Jettison their current approach to retirement benefits in which teachers accrue relatively meager benefits through much of their careers, and then abruptly become eligible for much more as they near retirement age.

Plans mostly back - load benefits so that teachers accrue little retirement wealth in early years, only to see substantial increases in their last years in the classroom.

Moreover, benefits accrue unevenly, such that a newly hired teacher must remain in a plan for at least 22 years before her future benefits are worth more than her contributions.

Maryland does not provide teachers with information on how their benefits accrue for each year of service, the amount contributed each year by teachers and employers on behalf of teachers, or the projected value of a teacher's contributions based on different assumptions about the rate of return expected (e.g. 4 %, 6 %, and 8 %).

Structuring a modest long - term benefit such that real value often does not begin to accrue until well after the period when many teachers leave the profession does little to provide an incentive for good teachers to stay longer.

Hawaii's pension system is based on a benefit formula that is not neutral, meaning that each year of work does not accrue pension wealth in a uniform way until teachers reach conventional retirement age, such as that associated with Social Security.

Maryland noted that «teachers are provided with information about how their benefits accrue over time,» citing the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and member handbook.

The benefits of induction programs extend beyond those accrued by beginning teachers and their students.

In all of our work, NAEYC aims to ensure that our nation's policies and practices catch up with the significant body of research and science about the individual and collective benefits that accrue when children have access to high - quality early learning settings with supported, skilled, and knowledgeable teachers — because that's when we will deliver on the promise of early learning.