In order to assist local school districts in addressing the health care issues facing employers and their employees, including retired employees the California State Teachers' Retirement Board formed the Public Education Health Benefit Task Force.

The task force included representatives of:

• Certificated and classified employees
• County offices of education
• Community college districts
• Administrators of school health care plans

Task Force Report

In May 2008, the task force issued its report to the Teachers’ Retirement Board:

Health Care Have and Have Nots: A Crisis for California’s Retired Educators

Additional Resources:

At the March 16, 2007 Public Education Health Benefits Task Force meeting, Jeffrey Markov, Director of Fiscal Services of the Elk Grove Unified School District, presented:

• Retiree Health Benefits: Elk Grove Benefits Retiree Trust (PDF 315KB)

On January 19, 2007, Anthony Wright, executive director for Health Access California, presented the following documents to the task force:

• Gov. Schwarzenegger's Health Care Proposal (PDF 80KB)
• The Health Care Crisis: The Uninsured (PDF 61KB)
• Massachusetts-Style Reform in California? We Start From Different Places
  (PDF 61KB)
• Recommendations on Access to Health Care (PDF 82KB)
• Massachusetts’ Health Care Law: Model, Mirage, or Momentum? (PDF 82KB)

On December 8, 2006, Dr. Henry Simmons delivered a speech to the Public Education Health Benefits Task Force. A transcript of the speech is available:

• The Health Care Crisis, the Prospects for Reform, and CalSTRS (PDF 47KB)