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Download full textKrista Kaput; Titilayo Tinubu Ali; Jennifer O’Neal Schiess – Bellwether, 2024
Understanding how the District of Columbia (DC) funds District of Columbia Public School (DCPS) students and DC public charter school students is essential to ensuring all students receive the support they need as COVID-19 pandemic-era federal funds expire. The recent rise in the Uniform Per Student Funding Formula (UPSFF) and the boost in the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Charter Schools, Public Schools, Educational Finance
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Direct linkPodgursky, Michael; Aud Pendergrass, Susan; Hesla, Kevin – Education Next, 2018
Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them. Keeping public-school teachers' pensions plans flush is expensive, and it accounts for a growing share of education spending. In some states, public charter schools provide an…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Innovation, Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits
Morrissey, Monique – Economic Policy Institute, 2017
Several studies have argued that teacher pensions are a raw deal for most teachers and should be replaced with account-style plans. This report examines research that most teachers working today are building a secure retirement. According to the author, the myth that most teachers get a raw deal while a lucky few receive generous pensions is based…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Compensation (Remuneration), Teaching Conditions
Koedel, Cory; Ni, Shawn; Podgursky, Michael; Xiang, P. Brett – Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, 2014
This report examines teacher pension plans in Missouri, with a particular focus on the Kansas City and Saint Louis school districts. Missouri is unusual in that public educators are divided among three pension systems: the Kansas City Public School Retirement System (KC), which covers 3 percent of Missouri teachers; the Public School Retirement…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Retirement Benefits, Urban Schools, Rural Urban Differences
Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report presents school district leaders' views about staff turnover, hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Based on the survey responses of 292 district leaders from the American School District Panel (ASDP), the authors found that teacher and principal turnover had not increased substantially…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten, COVID-19
Olberg, Amanda; Podgursky, Michael J. – Thomas B. Fordham Institute, 2011
In the wake of the economic downturn that began in 2008, public schools face serious and seemingly long-term fiscal challenges. Rising pension costs are a particular concern for school districts, whose dollars help prop up state retirement plans that often have substantial unfunded liabilities. Yet public school districts have no alternatives;…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Retirement, School Districts, Retirement Benefits
