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Big changes coming to employee contracts in Little Rock School District

From what we know of the proposal offered to LREA, the union will maintain its status as a local with exclusive negotiating rights on salary and benefits, but the terms of the existing contract regarding working conditions will go by the wayside.
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UPDATED: Privatizing teacher insurance unlikely; merger with state employees gains support. Plus, a genuinely new idea.

The legislative task force created to study the public school employee insurance problem doesn't like the idea to cut school districts loose to shop for insurance on their own, but there's support for the proposal to merge the teacher insurance system with the state employee system. Meanwhile, a Republican legislator has an innovative proposal that could potentially make a big difference.
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Legislature discusses merging teacher and state employee insurance, but won't touch separate retirement systems

Combining the insurance systems for public school employees and state employees might help teachers with premiums in the short run, but unless it's accompanied by a big infusion of cash it will harm state employees. As for combining retirement systems for teachers and other public workers? Not happening.

EBD: some teacher insurance rates will rise by 7 percent, others by 30 percent

Public school employee (PSE) insurance rates for 2015 were announced today by the state board that manages the health plans for both PSEs and state workers (rates for Arkansas state employees were announced at a prior meeting).
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New teacher insurance rates to be announced July 29th

The latest on public school employee insurance woes: the task force looks at bigger-picture fixes and EBD says premiums will be announced on July 29th.

That special legislative session: Folly begets more folly

Times columnist Ernest Dumas, who's seen a half-century of legislative sessions, sums up last week's three-day gathering. In short: It didn't provide a fix for any of the three items on the agenda: school employee health insurance, inadequate prisons or lottery games opposed by the Oaklawn slot machine parlor in Hot Springs.
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Picking apart the teachers' insurance "fix" just approved by the legislature

The crisis in the public school employee (PSE) insurance system is complicated. The politics behind it are complicated. The solutions just passed by the legislature to once again shore up the troubled fund — those are complicated, too. But the underlying reason behind the fund’s insolvency is simple: the public isn't paying enough for its share of PSE insurance.

Legislature speeds through agenda; midnight finish set

The Senate completed its work quickly today on the insurance-prisons-lottery special session agenda and the House followed not long behind. The chambers were to reconvene shortly after midnight tonight to complete action on the bills and be done.
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Wrinkle on insurance bills slows call for special session

It would appear there's now some indication that there is no free lunch on the bill to reduce an expected increase in school employee health insurance. A wrinkle has slowed the call for a special session.

Legislators draft possible solutions to school health insurance rate increase

Legislative committees have produced possible options to address a huge rate increase otherwise coming next year for participants in the public school employees health insurance plan.
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