Kansas guides
KPERS, teaching licenses, special education endorsements, salary and Social Security: guides for Kansas teachers
Each guide covers rules and figures Kansas teachers may want to check, and quotes the agencies and laws behind them, including: Kansas law and the Kansas Public Employees Retirement System (KPERS) for working after retirement; the Kansas State Board of Education and the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) for teaching licenses and special education endorsements; KSDE, Kansas law and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for pay; and federal law, the Social Security Administration, Kansas’s KPERS law and data the U.S. Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) published in 2019 for Social Security and the earnings test. The guides are grouped below by topic.
Last reviewed November 1, 2026
Retirement: KPERS and Social Security
KPERS Working After Retirement: Rules for Retired Kansas Teachers
Working after you retire from KPERS: what KPERS says about non-KPERS employers and about work through a third party, the waiting period and the no-prearrangement rule for work with a KPERS employer, substitute teaching, the employer’s contributions, KPERS long-term disability benefits, and leaving KPERS before retiring.
Do Kansas Teachers Get Social Security? KPERS and the Earnings Limit
Whether Kansas teachers pay into Social Security (KPERS-covered school jobs are covered by Social Security, under Kansas’s KPERS law and KPERS’s own rule; NCES data published in 2019 class Kansas the same way), how a KPERS pension and Social Security fit together after the Social Security Fairness Act, and the 2026 and 2027 earnings tests before full retirement age.
Teaching licenses and special education endorsements
Kansas Teaching License (Certification): KSDE Lookup and Renewal
How to look up a Kansas teaching license in KSDE’s Educator License Lookup, how a professional license is renewed with professional development points, credit hours or other options (including KSDE’s half-points option for teachers in an educational retirement system), what to do when a license has expired, and coming to Kansas with another state’s license.
Kansas Special Education Endorsement: High and Low Incidence (KSDE)
Kansas special education endorsements in KSDE’s words: High Incidence, Low Incidence, Gifted, Deaf or Hard of Hearing and Visually Impaired (and the separate Early Childhood Unified endorsement), why none of them can be added by test alone (an approved program and the Praxis content test), and the provisional special education endorsement.