Sentences with phrase «uses teacher pension plans»

Not exact matches

The Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan, for example, started using leadership assessments a couple of years ago to help pinpoint areas where senior staff need improvement and to verify impressions of outside candidates.

Weingarten: Not using pension plans to help retain teachers.

Allegretto and Mishel calculate the value of the pension benefits that teachers earn in a given year based on how much their employers contributed to their retirement plans in that year, using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics» Employer Costs for Employee Compensation (ECEC) survey.

The sponsors of private plans must therefore contribute much more for every dollar of promised benefits than governments contribute to teacher pension plans that value liabilities using an 8 percent assumed return on portfolios heavily weighted with stocks, hedge funds, or private equity.

Regardless of whether I use the pension plan assumptions or the actual turnover rate, the lines show that half of all new teachers will not reach ten years of service and will not qualify for a retirement benefit.

Using the pension plan's own interest assumptions (often 8 percent), in half of states teachers need to stay in a single system for at least 24 years to simply break even on their contributions plus interest.

In our recent paper «Friends without Benefits,» we used pension plan assumptions for all 50 states and the District of Columbia to estimate that more than half of all teachers won't qualify for even a minimal pension.

To explore how charters can use this flexibility to create different teacher retirement plans, economist and pension expert Michael Podgursky and national charter researchers Susan Aud Pendergrass and Kevin Hesla studied retirement plans at charter schools across five states: Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, and Michigan.

- Early - Career Teachers: Using the pension plan's assumptions for retention, the average first - year teacher in 2009 had less than a 50 - 50 chance of making it to 2020.

This is a much less incremental approach than the assumptions North Carolina uses, which makes it even more obvious that New York City's salary bumps at years 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, and 22 are not doing enough to shape teacher behavior to warrant adjusting the pension plan's assumptions.

In our recent paper, «Friends Without Benefits: How States Systematically Shortchange Teachers» Retirement and Threaten Their Retirement Security,» we used pension - plan assumptions for all 50 states and the District of Columbia to estimate that, in the median state, more than half of all teachers won't qualify for even a minimal Teachers» Retirement and Threaten Their Retirement Security,» we used pension - plan assumptions for all 50 states and the District of Columbia to estimate that, in the median state, more than half of all teachers won't qualify for even a minimal teachers won't qualify for even a minimal pension.

The teachers association, which endorsed Newsom, also asks candidates if they will oppose using student test scores as an element in determining teacher salaries; support collective bargaining for school employees; and oppose replacing the pension system for public employees with a 401k - style retirement plan.

In Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Federation of Teachers president Jerry Jordan has long railed against using 401 (k) retirement plans for his union's members as a way to curb skyrocketing pension costs.

Jana Partners, an activist shareholder and a major US public pension plan provider, and California State Teachers» Retirement System (CalSTRS) have asked Apple to study how excessive phone use can affect mental health.