The district offers an Early retirement incentive that includes health insurance coverage.

He cited a recent retirement incentive for teachers approved by the board.

Additionally, teacher can receive a retirement incentive of up to $18,000.

"People are not viewing retirement incentives as an end to work."

At present, more than 20,000 retirees, or about one in 10, benefit from some sort of early retirement incentive.

A trend seems to be growing among colleges and universities to offer retirement incentives.

But it was too early to know how many teachers will be permitted to choose the retirement incentive, he said.

The district also offers a retirement incentive to teachers of $1,000 to $10,000.

The retirement incentive is up to $10,000 depending on length of service with the district.

In addition to those taking the early retirement incentives, there are the normal number of employees who leave for other jobs.