Rent-a-teacher bill passes out of committee

By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter

MADISON — Changes may be coming to Wisconsin classrooms.

Lawmakers on Thursday unanimously passed a bill out of committee that could reduce aid to rural school districts and make it easier for retired teachers to skirt a new law aimed at reducing “double dipping” — the practice of collecting a public pension and then going back to work for the government.

Retired teachers who receive paychecks from a third-party service, or ‘rent-a-sub’ agency, instead of the school district would bypass a new state law that requires a 75-day separation window before a retiree collecting a public pension check goes back to government work.  The bill also allows two-thirds work — 880 hours per school year for teachers — before pension checks are put on hold.

Because the ‘rent-a-sub’ agency writes the checks, the retired teacher is not considered to be working for the government.

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