Anchorage School District seeks to hire retired teachers to help fill hundreds of vacancies

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The district is required by state law to draft a resolution approved by the Anchorage School Board in order to hire teachers who have retired.

Updated: 1 day agoAn Anchorage teacher prepares her classroom for the new school year in August 2021.

It’s the latest strategy to help address the district’s hiring and retention challenges: As of January, there were around 400 unfilled staff positions in the district, Lang said. There were more than 600 openLang and others have linked the district’s hiring challenges to a national teacher shortage.

that’s approved by the school board — and to prove that they are otherwise unable to find qualified applicants.That law exists because of federal rules that govern how and where people can be reemployed when they are collecting a pension, Lang said.Retired teachers are slightly costlier to the district than newer teachers because they often start much higher up the pay scale, and the state must still contribute to their retirement benefits even though the teacher doesn’t have to pay in, he said.

 

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