With staffing shortages statewide, educators in Michigan are working to remove a roadblock to allow teachers who have retired to get back in the classroom. K-12 Alliance Director Bob McCann says this reform is needed.
“Michigan is one of only a few, if we’re not the only state in the nation, that bars recently retired teachers from coming back to work in the classroom for nine months,” McCann said. “It means if you’re a teacher that retired at the end of the school year this year, you’re not allowed to come back to the classroom to be a teacher for nine months.”
McCann says a state Senate committee will vote on a bill next week that would allow retired teachers to return to class sooner than that. However, they want a salary cap of $10,000 dollars a year removed from the bill.
