Teachers retirement OKs pension smoothing option

The board for the state Teachers Retirement System earlier on Tuesday gave a unanimous thumbs-up to a pension smoothing option that would let districts amortize over seven years some of the upcoming pension cost spikes precipitated by the 2008 financial crash and high pension costs in general for teachers across the state.

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