School districts' pension 'pickups' cost students and taxpayers

By LocalLabs News Service

Aug 19, 2016

The practice of the "pickup" -- where school districts pay some, if not all, of teachers' contributions into their own retirement pensions -- could leave Illinois' educators, students and taxpayers high and dry.

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