Midwestern Teacher Retirement Systems

Little bit of an odd post today, but I thought I would share a link to my latest report. The Indiana Department of Education asked a few of us at IU to examine the retirement benefits of school administrators and whether Indiana's benefit package could be affecting superintendent mobility out of the state. So, we looked at the retirement systems in Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky (the neighboring states) & Florida and used those to run some simulations on hypothetical administrators to see how the different state retirement packages would affect their pensions and whether there would be a benefit to moving. We also surveyed principals and superintendents to try to understand how important retirement benefits are in their career decision-making.

Anyway, I don't want to try to sum up the complex findings in a paragraph here, so if you are interested, check out the executive summary of the full report (pdf).