How you can help with the PSERS crisis
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post on the PSERS crisis, I received several emails and calls from stakeholders wanting to know more about this issue and how to help.
This post must have stuck an accord with many as this blog realized a “spike” of it’s own yesterday — a 219.44% increase in the number of visitors from the previous day.
My first recommendation is to continue to gather as much information as possible. A great place to start is the Pennsylvania Public School Employee Retirement System (PSERS) website. They have assembled a webpage entitled “Pension Funding Rate Spike Resources”, which contains a good amount of information and data projections from the PSERS actuaries.
I know its a lot of information to grasp, so I will make use of this blog to help explain some of the real issues. I will also leverage the use of data visualization tools to better summarize the information.
Additional resources from both sides of this issue:
- The Pennsylvania School Board Association (PSBA)
- The Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA)
My second recommendation is to get involved. After learning more about this important issue facing public education, contact your local and state representatives and share your input with them. Attend school board meetings…search the web…stay informed.
Local Legislative Offices:
- Rep. Gary Day, 187th District (includes all of Northwestern Lehigh School District)
Northwest Centre, Suite 302
6299 Route 309, New Tripoli, PA 18066
Phone: (610) 760-7082
E-mail: gday@pahousegop.com - Sen. Pat Browne, 16th Senatorial District (includes Lowhill & Weisenberg Townships)
8330 Schantz Road, Breinigsville, PA 18036
Phone: (610) 366-2327 - Sen. David Argall, 29th Senatorial District (includes Heidelberg & Lynn Townships)
One West Centre Street, Mahonoy City, PA 17948
Phone: (570) 773-0891
E-mail: dargall@pasen.gov
Contact the leadership of the Senate:
- Sen. Joseph Scarnati at jscarnati@pasen.gov or fax (717) 772-2755
- Sen. Dominic Pileggi at dpileggi@pasen.gov or fax (717) 783-7490
- Sen. Robert Mellow at mellow@pasenate.com or fax (717) 772-2162.
Contact the leadership of the House:
- Rep. Keith McCall at kmccall@pahouse.net or fax (717) 772-1231
- Rep. Todd Eachus at teachus@pahouse.net or fax (717) 772-9991
- Rep. Sam Smith at shsmith@pahousegop.com or fax (717) 787-6564.
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