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Date:         Fri, 23 Apr 2004 06:09:40 EDT
From:         Bonnie Bracey <BBracey@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Failure to Retain Md. Program Pushing Older Teachers Out
To:           K12ADMIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Failure to Retain Md. Program Pushing Older Teachers Out
Pr. George's Has Most Retirees in Classrooms
By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 23, 2004; Page B01
Brian Hunt was born, raised and educated in Prince George's County. So when
he decided to become a teacher 36 years ago, he says, he didn't want to go
anywhere else.

Now 57, Hunt teaches math at Langley Park McCormick Elementary School in
Hyattsville. It's a job he said he's not ready to leave, yet he might have to 
do
just that.
For the past four years, he's been employed under a state program that allows
veteran teachers and principals to "retire" but still keep working. Many
collect their full salaries and pensions, an arrangement intended to help fill 
the
state's classrooms amid a national teacher shortage.
But the Maryland General Assembly ended its session this month without
renewing the program, which expires June 30. Critics had complained that
retired/rehired teachers, as they are known, were being paid too much money and 
not
filling vital needs, such as teaching special education classes or working in
troubled schools.

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