| Show TEACHERS TO GET PENSIONS Board of Education Takes Steps For Relief of Superannuated Pedagogues MEETS SUCCESS ELSEWHERE law 1 Kim et e I by It ll t Io tin of liC System In III J h rn States By n passing n I resolution at nt tho re request C quest of ot In Suit SnIt Lako tho hoard board of or education Is III about to oni um bark on all an experiment of ot providing pensions for rOl aged school teachers who become disabled white while In the service The Idea Iden Is ono one that has been gaining ground l through the cost enst and an 1 tho experiment has boon heen mado pos possible sible here through a 1 law passed by tho last malting It Il optional with school districts to 10 try such experiments ments monts taw In provides that boards of ot edu education cation upon receipt of petitions from a sufficiently largo large O of teach teachers ers must lust make malto tho lav operative and such a I petition was received l by b the tho Salt board somo months ng I Ht night a 11 resolution ro was passed tho appointment of lit a Il re 10 retiring tiring commission Jon to consist cun of or throe three the city of rr schools the clerk of ot the board of edu education e u cation two member selected elected I IT 1 tho board of nf education from Crom among Its matter Is III now in III a whore tho moot m t tand and their theil rs before fur further ther thel action In taken A teachers ux Ul Is partially formed d and It Is I thought that this ItH will rapid rapidly ly h b bl perfected until It Includes all allot of ot tho city elt teachers in its itA membership IC III belsh 11 It l Is planned to get Iret the tho matter work worl worlIng Ing brol tho beginning of or tins Uw next year no R J that tile tho plan may bo put in lit full force at that time FJ S OK OF THE llIE A W The Ihl law III W provides that the tho funds for forthe the thc of or teachers l be he do rived from two sources First l nil all teachers in III tho association must pay 11 1 pet per cent of or their salaries Into Inlo the fund tho amount to bo deducted month by b tho clerk cleric of or tho board of education Second SC ond all 1111 deductions made by b the board of or education from roin fach salaries on 11 account of sickness or nr otherwise o must bo turned Into tho fund by the board bOlln Iho loth shall have authority by b H Ii voto to uny un of at the who rho Is III mentally menta 11 or 01 physically for Cor tho performance of duly tho teacher to h hall lias taught in III the th district at lit litt least t live 10 years earll and whose 6 term of fir nr shall 30 years whether before IJ toC or after or 01 partly or 01 tho pa of or the act lIot ao o retired shall Iii on In titled to receive as a I pension an nn an annual nual salary equal to of at till the average annual salary drawn by b that teacher for tor tho five fio years yelus retirement hut but In case cale the tho teacher retired shall not nol have lulo taught 30 years the th may be retired and will willbo willbo bo entitled to aa ns many thirtieths of or ortho tho as 5 the number r of or years Nr of ot service are ale parts of or 30 Any tenell cr el who Is II retired under this classification lion tion who recovers health shall to tn draw tho annuity The commission shall also have tho 1110 right to retire any nn member of ot the tho as association who WI has taught 30 years one third of at which time shall have hao been spent pent In tn the tho district in which that teacher Is retired tf rot and who has reach rench reached ed td the ago nl of ot CO liO years ems Such a touch teach teacher er shall bo be retired I without option on tho part of or the commission but only on leanest and the tho presentation of ot tho ro 10 credentials The retired In Instructor shall be lio entitled to an nn annual salary of ot of If the average an nn annual nual salary received for rOl the years calR preceding retirement Any teacher dismissed from the ser service vice of or thu tho board of nC education for Cor cause shall lX entitled to tn a refund of oC all money mane paid Into inlo tho thu retirement fund rund Any An teacher 01 un withdrawing from frum the service of at the tho board can on application mado In writing months after such Hue r secure of tho amount paid Into the fund The net act provides that tho commission can adopt such rules as are arc In III harmony with tho Intent and purpose of Or the tho act |
