Oklahoma Teacher's Retirement plan called substantially underfunded

 
BY MICHAEL MCNUTT
Published: July 12, 2010

The retirement fund for Oklahoma public school teachers is one of the most underfunded plans of its type in the nation even though it reported a 17 percent return on investments last fiscal year.

The teachers retirement system's pension fund as of June 30 totaled about $8.3 billion. During the last fiscal year its pension plan was funded to 49.8 percent — a far cry from the 80 percent experts prefer.

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