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Ohio Lawmakers Make Last-Minute Teachers Pension Change to State Budget

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – The state budget passed on Wednesday includes a plan to overhaul the State Teachers’ Retirement System (STRS), with critics saying it was done to effectively silence the voices of active and retired Ohio teachers. Just after 1 a.m. Wednesday, an amendment was added to the budget to change the makeup of the 11-member STRS board. Right now, the board includes seven elected teachers, but that would be cut to only three, with…

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Ohio lawmakers make last-minute teachers pension change to state budget

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Ohio lawmakers set to remove majority of educators from retired teachers’ pension fund board

The entrance to the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System headquarters in Columbus. (Photo by Marty Schladen, Ohio Capital Journal.)Ohio active and retired educators will have less of a voice on the state’s retired teachers’ pension fund board under the proposed final budget. Amid legislators’ concerns of an alleged corruption scheme threatening the fund, they have decided to reduce the number of elected positions and add more political appointm…

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