Can California withstand a teacher retirement boom?
Can California withstand a teacher retirement boom? Eli Wolfe View Comments Earlier this year, the California State Teachers Retirement System issued an ominous statement: teacher retirements in California are projected to hit nearly record-breaking heights in 2021. The statement, which came in the form of a February blog post, said that the numbers will be almost as bad as the year after the Great Recession when more than 16,000 teachers retired. While short-term effects are being felt in some areas, in many school districts the tsunami of retirements is barely registering as a ripple...