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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

Former principal Washington paid in $179K to teachers' pension fund, could collect $2.62M in retirement

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Former principal Cassandra Washington, who retired in March 2018, saved $178,534 toward a pension over 25 years working for public schools, Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund records show.

Over 30 years of retirement, Washington would collect as much as $2.62 million, according to a projection by Local Government Information Services (LGIS), which publishes Chicago City Wire.

The projection assumes Washington received $55,175 in the first year of retirement, then 3 percent annual increases thereafter, compounded.

After 4 years of retirement, Washington will have already received $230,831 in retirement benefits, or more than the sum total of the retiree's contributions to the teachers' pension fund.

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