TRS - Important Notice: Payroll Deduction Program Ending
This only applies to members purchasing optional service, 2.2 upgrades, or the Early Retirement Option.
In order to comply with recent IRS guidance, the TRS Payroll Deduction Program must be discontinued. Full-time, employed members will no longer be able to use the program to pay for optional service, 2.2 upgrades, and the Early Retirement Option through payroll deduction on a pretax basis. Other tax-deferred options still remain. Please consult your tax advisor for details. TRS will phase out the program over the next . . . read more
New Podcast
How To Handle FOIA Requests
Listen to this 20 minute interview with attorney Heather Brickman of the law firm HLERK as she gives advice on how to handle FOIA requests. In this interview we discuss the recent McHenry County court case involving a newspaper request for a superintendent’s web browsing data on the district computer. Click here for a copy of the . . . read more
Follow-up to Alan November's Presentation at the IASA Conference
April 30, 2008 Update to New Superintendents
I hope you had an opportunity to listen to Alan November’s General Session presentation at the IASA Conference titled Transforming the Culture of Teaching and Learning. If you attended that session, you may have left with the feeling that many of our schools and may I add, superintendents and other educators, are far . . . read more
