homeagain wrote: CLEARLY u missed the portion of the article that stated LOCATION WILL VARY THE AVERAGE......not all want to be in the armpit of Colorado (DENVER METRO)
Douglas County is the armpit of Colorado? And many teachers supplement their income by teaching Summer School. Plus Colorado teachers get PERA, a defined pension plan which few private employers offer. So teachers are trading less pay now for months more of vacation time and a generous pension plan. The same pension plan that state legislators get so you know it will never be eliminated.
My niece just started teaching. They didn't even require her to have taken education courses at college. And no experience required.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
homeagain wrote: CLEARLY u missed the portion of the article that stated LOCATION WILL VARY THE AVERAGE......not all want to be in the armpit of Colorado (DENVER METRO)
Douglas County is the armpit of Colorado? And many teachers supplement their income by teaching Summer School. Plus Colorado teachers get PERA, a defined pension plan which few private employers offer. So teachers are trading less pay now for months more of vacation time and a generous pension plan. The same pension plan that state legislators get so you know it will never be eliminated.
My niece just started teaching. They didn't even require her to have taken education courses at college. And no experience required.
AHEM...PERA has been in trouble for a LONG TIME.......
The Colorado legislature has pumped hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into PERA in recent years to shore up the pension system, which has a large unfunded financial liability to its members. The liability was $27.2 billion as of Dec. 31, 2021, down $3.8 billion from the previous year, the annual report said.
PERA is a constant focus for the legislature because pension benefits are considered one of the biggest perks of being a government employee in Colorado.
"AHEM...PERA has been in trouble for a LONG TIME......."
PERA is a government entity and will not go bankrupt. It is mismanaged to be sure, with unrealistic return rates. It is a defined benefit program which is unimaginable in this day and age.
Perhaps, over time, it can be slowly converted to a 401-K but that would require the democrats bucking the teachers' union. Unlikely, rather the legislature with the executive approval will continue to fund it.
Back to the thread, in her dissent Justice Brown desires to double the survival rate of black babies. It is now over 99%, evidently she would like the survival rate to be 198%. Perhaps she was thinking of the 30% abortion rate of blacks, nationwide.
A wise Latina woman and a wise Black woman on the Supreme Court, what could go wrong?
Last edit: 06 Jul 2023 17:07 by ramage. Reason: More info
