Chad Aldeman's blog

A “crisis” is sometimes in the eyes of the beholder. The public pension crisis has a lot to do with the broader broken compact between Americans and their government over fiscal priorities. Yet again, it’s a place where public school teachers are the leading edge of the great debate about what it means to be an American.

If you follow news about the District of Columbia Public Schools (DCPS) closely, you could be forgiven if you thought teacher turnover had increased since the schools were handed over to mayoral control in 2007. But, at least according to the city's teacher pension plan, turnover hasn't increased at all; it's actually declined slightly.