Minnesota K12 teachers rally for pension reform

St. Paul — Educators from across Minnesota rallied Monday to draw attention to what they consider an unfair pension system for K-12 public school teachers. At a “Better Pensions Now” rally in the Capitol rotunda, several hundred people called for changes to a retirement plan in which nearly every public school teacher in the state is enrolled. “In 1989, the state of Minnesota created a two-tiered system for pensions and, now, 30-some years later … people who have been in education are realizing that there’s not a lot of equality in those systems, and that we do need to try…