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Pepperspectives on STRS Ohio
David Pepper talks about the mess at STRS. David Pepper has published three videos within the past year about STRS Ohio. Pepper talks...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 28, 20241 min read


ORTA is issuing a “truth to power” warning
The Ohio Retirement for Teachers Association (ORTA) is warning the press to closely follow what is happening at STRS Ohio.

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 27, 20242 min read


Toledo Blade Editorial: STRS reform has begun
Reform has begun at the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio. The board blocked $10 million in the proposed 2025 budget for a...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 25, 20242 min read


Time is a precious commodity for retired teachers!
Good morning. My name is Robin Rayfield, and I am a STRS retiree and the Executive Director of ORTA. As I travel around the state meeting...

Robin Rayfield
Jun 21, 20242 min read


Will you attend the STRS Ohio Retirement Board meetings on June 20 & 21?
Committee/board action is anticipated on Thursday on the Performance-Based Incentive (PBI) Policy and the Fiscal 2025 Proposed Budget....

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 19, 20241 min read


Toledo Blade Editorial: Oversight requires transparency
Ohio pensions provide Wall Street soothsayers more than $60 billion without even knowing what investments they’ve purchased. The Ohio...

ORTA
Jun 18, 20243 min read


Intrigue. Accusations of betrayal. Rebellion. The new season of “House of the Dragon”?
No, the Ohio State Teachers Retirement System. The board of the $92.6 billion pension fund meets this week, and while an agenda is not...
ORTA Staff
Jun 18, 20241 min read


UNDERSTANDING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF C + I = B + E
By Rudy Fichtenbaum A while back, someone posted a slide taken from the presentation Aon made to the Board at the November meeting,...

Rudy Fichtenbaum
Jun 10, 20245 min read


Cincinnati Edition Podcast: The power struggle for control of the Ohio teachers retirement fund
Click here to listen to the recording of the podcast. (23 min 19 sec) Ohio’s State Teachers Retirement System controls $90 billion...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 5, 20242 min read


Michael Shearer: Please allow me to educate you!
Dear Dispatch, You seem to have strong agreeable opinions with the guest columnist Brent Sohngen’s opinion letter (May 31, 2024)...

Jim Stoll
Jun 4, 20244 min read


Ohio's teachers are under attack. Again!
STRS Ohio Board members Rudy Fichtenbaum and Wade Steen are incurring legal fees defending themselves against the lawsuit brought against...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
Jun 3, 20241 min read


Governor DeWine’s Selective Red Flags and the STRS Ohio Pension System
STRS Ohio has eleven Board members; four are appointed, and teacher members elect seven. These elections end on the first Monday in May....

Dean Dennis
May 29, 20245 min read


"Overturning the will of the people is not supporting them." - Robin Rayfield, ORTA
The turmoil at the state teachers pension fund has sparked a lawsuit and a board reshuffle – but a retired teachers’ group says they’ve...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 27, 20241 min read


NEW Podcast: The Retiree View of Ohio's Pension Drama
"I just want my COLA" David Pepper did a podcast with Robin Rayfield, Executive Director of ORTA, to clarify all that’s been happening...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 24, 20242 min read


OCAAUP and OFT support STRS Board Chair Fichtenbaum against baseless allegations
Sara Kilpatrick, Executive Director of the Ohio Conference of the American Association of University Professors (OCAAUP), and Melissa...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 21, 20242 min read


Editorial: STRS suit weak
Despite histrionic language asserting that State Teachers Retirement System board members Wade Steen and Rudy Fichtenbaum have violated...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 19, 20243 min read


Ohio Teachers Lead The Fight To Restore Integrity To State Pensions
Governor DeWine and his cronies have rallied to thwart a valid teacher pension board election and support Wall Street secrecy schemes...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 18, 20241 min read


Paid leave for pension fund's executive director extended again
The executive director of the state's pension fund for teachers, who has been on paid administrative leave since November, will remain so...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 16, 20244 min read


Upheaval at Ohio teachers' pension fund continues with lawsuit, removal of board chair
Turmoil at the $90 billion teachers’ state pension fund has gone from the meeting room to the courtroom and back. Just hours before the...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 16, 20241 min read


Update: Standing Up to Bullies
Teachers and their Representatives Stood Up -- in Elections, and Yesterday In this topsy turvy political world where the bullies too...

STRS Ohio Watchdogs
May 16, 20241 min read
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