Alabama teacher retirements in 2020 highest in nearly a decade
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Alabama’s K-12 public school employee retirement numbers show November, December and January departures at the highest levels in nearly a decade.
According to numbers released by the Teachers Retirement Systems of Alabama, 3,245 public school employees retired in calendar year 2020, the highest number since a mass exodus in 2011 when state lawmakers changed the rules about retirement benefits. Officials said the stress and dynamics of working in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic were contributing, but not the only, factors to the rate of retirements.
Of those, 750 retired September through December, nearly twice the rate of retirements seen during the same time period since 2011.
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