What's a Better Term Than "War Chest?"

Teachers in several states are subject to unfair Social Security penalties.
Good pension plans help to recruit high quality teachers.
A good pension plan helps to retain productive teachers longer.
CalRTA has worked to protect educator pensions for more than eighty years.
When teachers earn SS credits in other fields they are penalized.

Earned retirement benefits are being attacked.
Let's organize to lobby Congressional leadership.
Let's increase national pressure to repeal unfair WEP, "Windfall Elimination Provisions" penalties.
Let's increase pressure nationally to repeal unfair GPO. "Government Pension Offset" penalties.
Let's work an action plan to repeal unfair WEP/GPO penalties.
Let's organize local constituent action.
Thank you Dr. Ghica and CalRTA.

Penalties Against Educators

"The current Social Security system includes little-known penalties that reduce and often eliminate Social Security benefits for retired teachers in California and 14 other States. CalRTA supports solutions to the long-term financing of Social Security, including repeal of these penalties which discourage people from becoming teachers."

WEP&GPO... Social Security Fairness - Home

WEP&GPO... Social Security Fairness - Home


California public school teachers lose part or all of their Social Security benefits.


I worked over 40 years under the U.S. Social Security Act, but because for a time I earned retirement as a California teacher, received only about $250 A month in SS benefits.


My situation seems unfair to me.

"Book" Learning

I believe, given appropriate cooperation and understanding, that teachers perpetuate a nation and make it thrive. Parents, with the cooperation of other citizens must organize to create and maintain the kinds of schools teachers need to do their job. Students, teachers, and the nation need schools that adequately transmit the literate national language and culture. With out the sustaining organization of parents, teachers, and other concerned citizens, the unity and effectiveness of the nation declines.


A large percentage of the literate culture of the US is undisputed so we can find it easy to agree to continue to teach it. About 80% of it has been in use for over a hundred years.


Such undisputed literate culture is what allows us to communicate among ourselves effectively. It allows grandparents to communicate with grand children, Southerners with Midwesterners, Asians  with 'Blacks', 'Whites' with 'Hispanics, Republicans with Democrats. We can communicate with strangers taught a common literate culture.