Los Angeles Unified, the second-largest school district in the country, is on pace to spend more than half of its annual budget on retirement and health-care costs by the year 2031. By then, it is projected to spend 22.4 percent of its budget on pensions and 28.4 on health-care benefits for current and former workers. The cost of health care is…

When policy advocates debate how best to ensure equity in public education funding, the topic of teacher pension reform rarely comes up. But, in fact, pensions represent a very large and fast-growing source of education spending, much of it distributed in ways that are, in a number of states, anything but equitable. When states subsidize teacher…

By examining teacher attrition and retirement and their impact on teacher salaries in Iowa Public Schools between 1980-1985, this study determines how annual percentage increases in teacher salaries had consistently exceeded percentage increases in school budgets. Results show that schools had managed these salary increases through savings…

This second discussion of a survey of library schools and library education examines a variety of topics, including student applications and enrollment; student placement and student satisfaction; budgets; external funding; economic problems; faculty research productivity; faculty retirements; position of the library school within the university;…

Federal budget-balancing legislation includes tax credits and deductions, worth $40-billion over five years, to help people pay for college. Provisions include tax credits, deduction of student loan interest and some employer-paid tuition assistance, penalty-free individual retirement account withdrawals, student loan forgiveness, institutional…