PolicyGuy

Tuesday, June 28, 2005


Education: Private Schools Bad, Except When They're Not.
Not quite sure what to make of this. Teacher unions are not exactly known as fans of helping people send their children to privately owned and operated schools. After all, the represent the competition.

And yet ... teachers in the Minneapolis school district (like many government employees) can "purchase" service time, which enhances their pension payout in a defined benefit scheme.

Say that you work as a teacher in a military school for five years, and then take a job in the Minneapolis schools. You can then deposit a sum of money into the Minneapolis teachers retirement fund, and then be treated, in the benefits calculations, as if you worked in the MPS for those 5 years.

Aside from working in the military, you can get credit for working in what other organizations? Among other things, private and even parochial schools.

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