Larger pay increases and better benefits could help keep K-12 teachers in the teacher workforce, finds a new, nationally representative RAND survey. Researchers examine how teachers’ pay increases, benefits, and major household expenses are related to their intentions to leave and compare teachers’ survey responses with those of similar working adults. They focus their discussion on Black teachers because of the worrying changes in these teachers’ perceptions of their pay and the negative consequences of their attrition on students.

Over half of Medicare beneficiaries in stand-alone Part D plans kept their coverage without comparing plans during the last enrollment period, and many reported not knowing how to switch plans.