Georgia guides
TRS, teaching certificates, special education, salary and Social Security: guides for Georgia teachers
Each guide covers rules and figures Georgia teachers may want to check, and quotes the agencies and laws behind them, including: state law and the Teachers Retirement System of Georgia (TRS) for working after retirement; the Georgia Professional Standards Commission (GaPSC) and its certification rules for teaching certificates and special education certification; state law, the State Board of Education, the Georgia General Assembly’s budget acts, the Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE), the Governor’s Office of Student Achievement and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for pay; and federal law, the Social Security Administration, the Employees’ Retirement System of Georgia, the National Center for Education Statistics and the Georgia Department of Revenue for Social Security, the earnings test and Georgia income tax. The guides are grouped below by topic.
Last reviewed October 15, 2026
Retirement: TRS and Social Security
Georgia Teacher Retirement: TRS Rules for Working After You Retire
Working after you retire from TRS: what TRS says about private-sector jobs, companies that do business with TRS-covered employers, part-time limits and SB 150, when you can start, and the separate rules for disability retirees.
Do Georgia Teachers Pay Social Security? TRS and 2026 Earnings Limit
Whether Georgia teachers pay into Social Security (it depends on the school district), how a TRS pension and Social Security fit together after the Social Security Fairness Act, and the 2026 earnings test before full retirement age.
Teaching certificates and special education certification
Georgia Teaching Certificate (License): Lookup, Renewal, Expired
How to look up a Georgia teaching certificate (license) with GaPSC, how renewal works when you are not in a Georgia school system, what to do if it expired, the Retired Educator certificate, and moving a certificate to Georgia.
Georgia Special Education Certification: Fields, GACE Tests, Routes
Georgia’s special education certification fields in GaPSC’s words, the current GACE tests and passing scores, the literacy test, adding special education to a certificate, and the GaTAPP route.