Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-04-08
SCHOOL TEACHERS
TO GET PENSIONS
Board of Education Takes Steps
For Relief of Superannu-
ated Pedagogues.
MEETS SUCCESS ELSEWHERE.
Law Enacted by Last Legislature
Followed Reports on Operation of
System in Eastern States.

BY passing n resolution at the re-
quest of $50 teachers in Salt Lake the
board of education is about to em-
bark on an experiment of providing
pensions for aged school teachers, and
those who become disabled while in the
service. The idea is one that has been
gaining ground through the east, and
the experiment has been made pos
sible here through a law passed by the
last legislature making IL optional with
school districts to try such expert
ments.
The law provides that boards OF edu-
cation upon receipt of petitions from a
sufficiently large percentage of teach
ers, must make the law operative, and
such a petition was received by the
salt Lake board some months ago.
Last night a resolution was passed
authorizing the appointment OF re-
firing commission, to consist OF three
teachers, the city superintendent Of
schools, the clerk of the board of edu-
cation, and two members selected ES
the board of education from among its
membership The matter is now in
shape where the teachers must meet
and select their members before fur
Their action is taken. teachers as
ISOLATION is partially formed, and II is
thought that this association will rapid
ly be perfected until it includes an
Of the city teachers in its membership.
II is planned to get the matter work.
ing before the beginning OF the next
school year SO that the plan may be
put in fun force at that time.
FEATURES OF THE LAW.
The law provides that the funds for
tho ma SiOnine- nF oh b. la
rived from two sources: First, all
teachers i'm the association must pay
l per cent of their salaries into the
fund, the amount To be deducted each
month by the clerk of the board Of
education. Second, all deductions made
by the board of education from teach
ers salaries on account of sickness or
otherwise must be turned into the fund
by the board.
The retirement commission shall have
authority by n two thirds vote to retire
any member of the association who is
mentally or physically incapaciated for
the performance of duty, provided the
teacher has taught in the district at
least five years, and whose term of SER
vice shall aggregate 30 years, whether
before or after or partly before or after
the passage of the act.
Each teacher so retired shall be en-
titled TO receive as a pension an an
nudl EdldlS tluttl W hllt-tlsill VI AAiN
average annual salary drawn by that
teacher for the five years preceding
retirement, but in case the teacher
retired shall not have taught 80 years
the beneficiary may be retired and will
be entitled to as many thirtieths or
the half salary as the number of years
Of service are parts of 80. Any teach
Ell who is retired under this classifica-
ton who RECEIVERS health shall cease
to draw the annuity.
The commission shall also have the
right to retire any member of the as
ISOLATION who has taught 30 years, one
third OF which time shall have been
spent in the district in which that
teacher Is retired, and who has reach
er shall be retired without option on
request and the presentation of the re-
quired credentials. The retired in
structor shall be entitled to an annual
nual salary received for the five years
preceding retirement.
ANY teacher dismissed from the SER
vice of the board of education for cause
shall be entitled to a refund of all
money paid into the retirement fund,
Any teacher voluntarily withdrawing
from the service of the board can. on
application made in writing three
months after such retirement, secure
one-half of the amount paid into the
fund.
The act provides that the commission
can adopt such rules as are In harmony
with the intent and purpose of the act.