{"id":212929,"date":"2025-10-09T23:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212929\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T23:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T23:38:13","slug":"fresno-unified-offers-early-retirement-plan-to-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/212929\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Unified offers early retirement plan to cut costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Unified educators and staff will soon be offered an early retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno Unified School Board passed a motion to move forward with a supplemental retirement plan.<\/p>\n<p>The board says it&#8217;s a way to reduce expenses while honoring long-time employees.<\/p>\n<p>The district plans to offer the one-time plan to about 1,900 employees who meet the specific requirements.<\/p>\n<p>They must be 55 or older and worked for the district for at least five consecutive years.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED]<a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/Fresno leaders rush to help 200 people from being displaced after sudden shelter shutdown\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/Fresno leaders rush to help 200 people from being displaced after sudden shelter shutdown\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Fresno leaders rush to help 200 people from being displaced after sudden shelter shutdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just teachers being offered the deal but also classified employees like bus drivers and cafeteria workers.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Fresno Teachers Association, employees who accept the deal will get 80-percent of their salary over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>The district says they&#8217;ll have more details on how many employees plan to take the deal in December.<\/p>\n<p>They will then vote on approving or rescinding the plan.<\/p>\n<p>If it passes employees will have until June to resign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 Fresno Unified educators and staff will soon be offered an early retirement. The Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[28,121164,15183,121163,10962,121166,121162,147,530,7125,121165],"class_list":["post-212929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-cost-reduction","tag-early-retirement","tag-educators","tag-employees","tag-fresno-teachers-association","tag-fresno-unified","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance","tag-staff","tag-supplemental-retirement-plan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}