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Summer 2006 California Schools magazine - Sticker Shock

Sticker Shock: GASB-ing over the high cost of retiree health benefits

By requiring districts to tally up their future retiree benefit tabs, the new rules shine a public light on what for some districts will be a shocking and rapidly growing future debt — one for which many districts are unprepared.

In This Issue

Supply in demand: Is there light at the end of the teacher pipeline?

The pileup will culminate in the mid-2010s, when school districts’ scramble for teachers will be the most desperate. The National Center for Education Information says 40 percent of America’s public school teachers plan to leave the profession in the next five years.

Prepped for life: A day of reckoning arrives for dropouts and their schools

Part 4: Cheryl's story

The last in a four-part series about preparing students for the world after high school.

Departments

A conversation with ... Robert Linquanti

A researcher speaks about the lessons learned from Proposition 227

Executive Director's note: Musings of an outraged moderate

Scott P. Plotkin is executive director of the California School Boards Association.

Short takes: Educated moms, healthy kids

The Sequoia Union High School District creates a place for teen moms.

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