WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 9, 2019) – The Teachers’ Retirement Board today received the results of the actuarial valuation for the CalSTRS Defined Benefit Program as of June 30, 2018. The actuarial valuation provides a snapshot-in-time of the system’s financial health, in addition to monitoring the system’s funding status and its ability to meet long-term commitments.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (May 9, 2019) – The trustees of the California State Teachers’ Retirement System today elected Sharon Hendricks as board chair and Harry Keiley as vice chair for the 2019-20 term.
WEST SACRAMENTO, Calif. (April 25, 2019)– The California State Teachers’ Retirement System today released its fifth annual Sustainability Report. The report, based on data from fiscal year 2017-18, uses the Global Reporting Initiative Standards: Core option.
In 1853, with the passage of the Act of March 3, 1853 (10 Stat. 244), the federal government gifted 5.5 million acres to the state of California to be used for the support of public education. Between 1855 and 1984, nearly 90 percent of the “school lands” (all of the high quality land) was sold, leaving behind mostly desert land, most of which falling within the boundaries of the lands protected by the California Desert Protection Act.
In fiscal year 2014–15, school lands generated gross revenues of $7.8 million for CalSTRS, a decrease of 24.3 percent from the previous year. Gross revenue to CalSTRS from solid mineral leases decreased substantially from $1,673,233 the previous year to $712,157, a 53 percent decrease from the previous year.
AB 982 Update – AB 982, which became law in 2011, directed the State Lands Commission and the Department of the Interior to enter into a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA), designed to facilitate land exchanges to consolidate state school land parcels consistent with renewable energy development of the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan (DRECP).
