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Marchitello, Max – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
West Virginia's attempt to reshape its teacher retirement system in the 1990s and early 2000s is often cited as a cautionary tale to block other teacher pension reform efforts across the country. Critics argue that because West Virginia replaced its pension fund with a defined contribution (DC), 401(k)-style plan in the early nineties, and then…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Finance Reform, State Programs
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Today, nine out of 10 Americans age 65 and older depend on Social Security benefits to lead a comfortable and secure retirement. Among all Americans over age 65, Social Security makes up more than half of their household income. This brief outlines the history of Social Security benefits in the public sector, describes the safe harbor rule and how…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Federal Programs, Public Policy
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
For the last two decades, Ohio has given its new public school teachers choices among retirement plans. Early in their employment, they are handed a form that allows them to opt for a traditional pension plan, a 401(k)-style defined-contribution (DC) plan, or a plan that combines elements of each. If they make no affirmative decision at all--that…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Retirement, Teacher Employment Benefits, Retirement Benefits
Aldeman, Chad; Randazzo, Anthony – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In "Are Texas Teacher Retirement Benefits Adequate?," authors Chad Aldeman and Anthony Randazzo analyze the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) of Texas and find it is not serving all of its members well. Most members will leave their teaching service in Texas with inadequate retirement benefits, and the unfunded liabilities the system has…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Employment Benefits, Tenure
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2020
In response to financial pressures, the New York State Assembly has created new, less-generous retirement plans for teachers. Teachers and other education employees are enrolled in one of two plans, the Teachers' Retirement System of the City of New York (TRS) and the New York State Teachers' Retirement System (NYSTRS). How far have the benefits…
Descriptors: Teacher Employment Benefits, Retirement Benefits, Money Management, Teacher Salaries
Marchitello, Max – Bellwether Education Partners, 2018
One would hope that as benefit costs increase, districts would correspondingly bump up their overall K-12 spending to ensure at least as much funding gets to classrooms as before. Unfortunately, that is not the case across the country or in the vast majority of states. In our new report, "Benefits Take Larger Bite out of District K-12…
Descriptors: Budgets, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, School Districts
Aldeman, Chad; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2019
Pensions have been at the forefront of recent debates over teacher pay, but the issues are complicated and political. As such, this document is an attempt to inform readers about how pension plans work for the 90 percent of public school teachers enrolled in them. Using objective data and analysis, we explain how teachers earn benefits in those…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Public School Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
Aldeman, Chad; Aguirre, Paulina S. Diaz – Bellwether Education Partners, 2017
Years of irresponsible budgeting practices have left the Teachers' Retirement System of Louisiana (TRSL) almost $12 billion in debt. Without significant reforms, Louisiana's pension problems are likely to get worse, with further negative consequences for workers and schools. This report shows that schools participating in the TRSL already must…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Teacher Salaries, State Programs
Kan, Leslie; Fuchs, Daniel; Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2016
Illinois' pension plans have sent the state on a downward spiral. One out of every four dollars that state taxpayers send to Springfield goes toward pensions, and the vast majority of these contributions go toward paying down large pension debt, not the actual retirement benefits given to state and local workers like teachers. The teacher pension…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Retirement, Debt (Financial), Educational Policy
Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2016
Why aren't teacher salaries rising? This puzzle can be explained by three trends eating into teachers' take-home pay: rising health care costs, declining student/teacher ratios, and rising retirement costs. Retirement costs are the most hidden of these three factors. The result is that most teachers are getting the worst of both worlds. Teachers…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teacher Salaries, Educational Trends, Trend Analysis
Goldhaber, Dan; Grout, Cyrus – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
As states and localities across the nation consider the tradeoffs between defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pension systems, it is important to gain insight into what implications pension reforms might have on workforce composition and teachers' retirement savings behavior. Moreover, it is also important to consider that…
Descriptors: Retirement Benefits, Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, State Legislation
Kan, Leslie; Aldeman, Chad – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
Retirement savings are often described as a three-legged stool: Social Security, employer retirement plans, and personal savings. For many American workers, Social Security is the most consistent portion of the three-legged model, providing a solid plank of retirement savings. But nationwide, more than 1 million teachers--about 40 percent of all…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, Elementary School Teachers, Public School Teachers
Rotherham, Andrew J.; Mitchel, Ashley LiBetti – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
For years, the debate about American education was like a bad marriage. The arguments were about everything but the core issue--instructional quality. The other issues--education finance, school choice, standards--all matter, but are secondary to the importance of effective instruction. In the labor-intensive education field, effective instruction…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Educational Change, Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Salaries
Aldeman, Chad; Rotherham, Andrew J. – Bellwether Education Partners, 2014
To shore up the $46 billion pension debt the state has accrued over the past several decades, Illinois has been using its teachers as a piggy bank. New legislation adopted in December 2013 will raise the retirement age for mid-career workers and limit the amount retiree pensions can increase with inflation over time. State and national union…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Retirement Benefits, State Legislation, Teaching Experience