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School Teacher Layoffs Stop Here

School Teachers  can stop layoffs.  School teachers do not need to lose their jobs.  Your school district can prevent layoffs by retiring not firing it’s teachers.   If your school district is offering you a voluntary early retirement incentive, try our free voluntary early retirement incentive calculator, to find out if you can retire today, and in the process help save your fellow teachers’ jobs.

The problem teachers face is that their school districts have budgets that need to be balanced. Unlike the federal government, which can print money to keep going into debt, school districts do not have that option.   Because of the recession, school revenues have declined, and so the district is forced to cut costs.  The largest cost school districts have are their teachers.

This is a fact.  Other than raising local taxes to generate more revenue, an idea that is unlikely to pass in a recession, the only option that works  to prevent teacher layoffs is early retirement.  Many school districts have used early retirement incentives, with mixed results, to prevent teacher layoffs.

Last week I spoke with San Francisco Unified School District  Human Resources Manager Roger Bushman.   After I explained how he can prevent layoffs of teachers, by offering teachers a voluntary early retirement package, he brushed the idea aside.   “I have been involved in many golden hand shakes, over the years, and they usually backfire.”

Roger Bushman sounded depressed.   He sighed a lot while we spoke, their was no enthusiasm in his voice, he sounded like a man defeated.   He had lost hope.  Roger had tried early retirement incentives in the past, they had not been successful, and he was not interested in trying it again.  As a result, over 800 San Francisco teachers, will needlessly lose their jobs.

The reasons why early retirement incentives packages fail are because, teachers have no idea if the incentives will actually allow them to successfully retire, and the district does nothing to help teachers figure out how they can take advantage of their offer.

Green Retirement LLC,  has created  solutions that solves both of these problems, allowing teachers to retire early with confidence, and enabling school districts to avoid layoffs.

The first solution. mentioned in the first paragraph, is the free voluntary early retirement incentive calculator, which teachers can use to find out if they can retire early.  The second solution, school districts can use to prevent layoffs, is to educate their educators on how to successfully plan, manage and maintain a safe and secure early retirement.

Green Retirement offers corporations, governments, and school districts, early retirement planning and education, to help prevent layoffs.  Creating the confidence, eligible early retirement incentive participants need,  to take advantage of the school district’s offer.  Increased confidence, produces increased participation, increasing the likelihood that layoffs can be prevented.

If you are a school teacher who is facing layoffs, ask your district administrators and your teachers union, to offer an early retirement incentive offer in order to prevent layoffs.  Then ak them to contact Green Retirement, to help them create a successful early retirement incentive package, to prevent school teacher layoffs.

If you are a school teacher who has already been laid off, try our free retirement calculators, to learn if you can stop looking for a job and retire today.

Also Read:
How to Retire with Less than $1 Million
Voluntary Early Retirement Incentive Packages
How to Retire Early

Update: 8,800 Los Angeles School Teachers and employees were notified that they will be losing their jobs.   The layoffs were announced on the same day that President Obama outlined his education reform plan, promising teachers who still have jobs, that they will be able to compete with each other for pay raises.