Public School Teachers in Green Bay can retire, join an “emeritus program,” and earn a full years pay for working 30 days over 3 years. I kid you not, this is a real program, and 140 Green Bay teachers have applied this year.
140 teacher retirement requests approved
The emeritus program gives one full year’s salary paid over three years. That is in addition to pension benefits. In return, the retiree provides 10 days of service to the district each year during that time. The emeritus program is something that has been negotiated into the teachers’ contract through collective bargaining.
How many other school districts have programs like this? This is indefensible! the taxpayers of Green Bay should be appalled that their school board ever agreed to something like this in the first place. Now, State Senate Democrats are defending this sort of collective bargaining, where no one is on the side of the taxpayer!
