15 Lancaster teachers retiring

[47of74]

Source: Dubuque Telegraph Herald

LANCASTER, Wis. -- The Lancaster School Board has accepted the retirements of 16 employees in the district, 15 of them teachers.

Lancaster School District Administrator Rob Wagner reported those retirements are being influenced by not only Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, but funding cuts in the proposed state budget.

The district had actually received retirement letters from 21 employees, but Wagner said five changed their minds.

The board recently approved a one-year contract extension with the Lancaster Education Association. Among the changes approved include teachers now paying 12.6 percent of the cost of health and dental insurance, and teachers having to pay their share into the retirement fund. Before, the Lancaster School District paid both the teachers' and the district's share.

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Nice one, Wisconsin Reich. The school district is going to lose over 500 years of teaching experience here.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

1. "...School District paid both the teachers' and the district's share." Um, no.

The teachers paid all of it as part of their compensation package. They just never saw the cash before it went to the retirement fund.


On edit: I'm not correcting you, 47. Just this 'freeloading' meme that won't die.

[roguevalley]

2. I've never heard of a district paying both shares. that has to be crap

we lost 28 teachers once, all pros and long term in one year once due to this sort of thing.

[canaar]

4. I represented teachers in Wisconsin

until 2008. The teacher retirement system required a roughly equal contribution from both the employer and employee adding up to roughly 12% of the employees' salaries. Over time, the local union affiliates across the state were successful in writing a provision into the collective bargaining agreements that required the employers (on a district by district basis) to make the employees' contribution to the retirement system. This was normally done in lieu of bargaining a wage increase during the termo of those agreements.

Alaska's local affiliates have not by and large chosen to bargain language requiring the employer to contribute the employees' share.

[quaker bill]

3. "teachers share"

They are all taxpayer dollars, one exactly the same as the next. There are no special types of dollars. They should just call it a pay cut and dispense with the fancy semantics that try to distinguish one identical dollar from another. They are cutting public worker pay, it is no more "fair" because you pull the dollars from this pile instead of that one.