This booklet and the training program provide a strategy to effect compliance with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidelines where the parties (the employers, the employee, and the Service Provider) agree to take responsibility for the matters over which each has control. This approach minimizes the risk to employers who voluntarily offer…

Advises retiring administrators to exercise a bit of dignity and common sense in their remaining months on the job. Administrators should show consideration regarding retirement plans, fight laziness, conduct training sessions for other administrators, accept others' foolish behavior gracefully, and be generous with parting insights. (MLH)

Describes career changes and retirement choices made by outgoing "career" superintendents. Choices ranged from teaching and consulting to administering philanthropic organizations and launching a charter-boat business. (MLH)

A study investigated the effects on the labor market of various proposed retirement options for teachers in South Carolina. First, questionnaires were sent to personnel officers in the 91 South Carolina school districts eliciting, first, facts and estimates relating to the supply of and demand for teachers and, second, their opinions on the ways…

This paper traces the development of two 1978 acts--the Pregnancy Discrimination Act and the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Amendment--and identifies some adverse effects that each can be expected to have on the work force in school districts. Besides providing new protection to two classes of workers (the pregnant and the 45-and-over), the…

Describes an innovative way for school districts to develop their own source of effective teachers to replace those who retire or leave. Norwalk-La Mirada School District (California) created a staff development plan using an exceptional principal, five "group leader" teachers, and a coordinator to train and certify excellent teachers…

Retirement can be a time of creativity and service to others. The Music Educators National Conference (MENC) is making it possible for retired members to continue their service to music, music education, and MENC. (Author/AM)

Describes Governmental Accounting Standards Boards' (GASB) proposed new standards addressing the recognition, measurement, and reporting of other postemployment benefits (excluding pension benefits), the most common of which are health-care benefits. Includes a lengthy table of tentative GASB decisions on other postemployment benefits. Suggests…

Because of longer life expectancies and individually managed supplements to monthly pension checks, planning at retirement is becoming as important as planning for retirement. This article provides advice for retiring administrators concerning personal budgeting, setting goals, estate and tax planning, choosing medical coverage, converting assets,…

A retired superintendent decided to become an educational consultant. A thorough self-assessment convinced him that speaking in front of groups and running training sessions constituted a perfect occupation. After attending a National Speakers Association meeting, he learned entrepreneurial and self-marketing skills that have paid off handsomely.…

A "retired" school leader who has held five interim superintendencies explains why his unanticipated second career has been professionally and financially rewarding. Interims should maintain a daily log, greet staff and students, share what they know, set an example, be enthusiastic, support the incoming superintendent, and have fun. (MLH)

Most National Education Association (NEA) members are covered by a type of retirement plan called a defined benefit pension plan, which provides a specific benefit periodically throughout an employee's retirement. This report provides an overview of the federal tax rules relating to the different types of retirement plans, savings plans, health…

Using retired teachers as mentors for beginning teachers in New York City has made real differences in the lives of the new teachers, their mentors, the students, and the supervisors in approximately 100 schools. In these schools more than 100 mentors have worked with 500 teachers over a three-year period. The New York City Mentor/New Teacher…

Teachers in the Cobb County (Georgia) Public Schools are well prepared for retirement by participation in day-long retirement seminars at which all retirement business can be conducted, extensive preretirement workshops and counseling, special receptions and conferences to update previously retired teachers, and additional activities. (PGD)