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TRS Decision Concerns Texas Senators

Issue of Fiduciary Counsel Hotly Debate

In a somewhat contentious setting, Senator Robert Duncan and Senator Steve Ogden today questioned the employment of a new Fiduciary Counsel at the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.

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TRTA 56th Annual Convention
81st Legislative Priorities
Golden Days from 55th Convention

The TRTA 56^th Annual Convention will be held in Waco on April 14–16, 2009. Convention planning is already underway and materials and information will be available in the next few months for you to make plans to attend.

Core Belief: Public education employees have been assured of a traditional defined benefit plan as a part of the Constitution of 1937. A traditional defined benefit retirement plan provides public employees a guaranteed pension that will last their entire lives. A privatized plan does not guarantee these public servants the retirement they need and deserve.

Thanks to everyone who attended the TRTA 55th Annual Convention in El Paso at the historic Camino Real Hotel and the El Paso Convention Center last week.

Ann A. Buchanan from the Brownsville Area RSEA has written the lyrics for "Golden Days" which is sung to the tune of "School Days." The lyrics are now available online!