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Fixing Teacher Pensions: Is It Enough to Adjust Existing Plans?
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Costrell, Robert M.; Podgursky, Michael; Weller, Christian – Education Next, 2011
Teacher benefits, once a sleepy question primarily of interest to actuaries, have become a flash point in the education debate. With individual states on the hook for tens or hundreds of millions in unfunded pension and health insurance obligations, state leaders are trying to determine the severity of the situation and the appropriate response.…
Descriptors: Health Insurance, Change Strategies, Retirement Benefits, Personnel Policy
Equity Implications of Methods of Funding State Teachers' Retirement Systems. Working Paper in Education Finance No. 30.
Wendling, Wayne – 1980
Current methods of funding teachers' retirement systems, which base pensions on final salaries, are inequitable because they are not related to school districts' ability to pay and because they require some teachers to subsidize others. A five-state survey shows it is common for pensions to be funded by school districts and teachers, sometimes…
Descriptors: Compensation (Remuneration), Elementary Secondary Education, Justice, Retirement Benefits
Pension and Retirement Policies in Colleges and Universities: An Analysis and Recommendations.
Ruebhausen, Oscar M., Ed. – 1990
The Commission on College Retirement was formed to review the role and functioning of college and university retirement programs and make recommendations for program improvements. This volume brings together five separate reports issued by the commission. "Retirement Ages for College and University Personnel" addresses the issues of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Employment Practices, Financial Services, Health Insurance
We Discuss the Draft Law on Pension Security.
Soviet Education, 1990
Offers editorial opinion and excerpts from letters discussing pension requirements for teachers in the Soviet Union. Criticizes the policy of requiring teachers to put in a strictly enforced number of years of service to become eligible to receive a pension. (DK)
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Let's Have a National Retirement Program for Mobile Educators.
Gerardi, Robert J. – 1984
A recent survey of the 50 states showed a wide variation in buy-back provisions for emigrating teachers who wish to apply prior service from another state toward their pension plan in the state to which they have moved. A chart shows the number of years of buy-back allowed and the specific requirements for claiming them in each of the states,…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Mobility, Fringe Benefits, National Surveys
When You Hear, "Old Teacher...."
Poiarkova, R. – Soviet Education, 1990
Discusses a perceived lack of concern for retired teachers among former students and the community at large. Provides examples and excerpts from letters describing loneliness and financial difficulties among retired teachers in the Soviet Union. Urges respect and concern for those who have given everything for their profession, often at the…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Quality of Life
Declining Enrolments and the Aging Teaching Force.
Atherton, Peter J. – 1978
The rapid expansion of Ontario's educational system in the 1960s serves as a base for this study of the current decline in enrollment and its consequences. This paper examines two results of the concentration of manpower in teaching: the need for reduction in force and the potential burden on the retirement system. The author makes several…
Descriptors: Age, Declining Enrollment, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries