On this week’s Dropout Nation Podcast, RiShawn Biddle looks the nation’s insolvent defined-benefit pensions at the heart of traditional teacher compensation, and reveals the extent to which they are underfunded. Reformers must end the actuarial tricks — often encouraged for decades by states, districts and affiliates of the National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers — that understate the real cost of pensions, as well as advance the overhaul of teacher compensation altogether.
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