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MACOMB, ILL. -- Macomb's superintendent will retire after next school year.

That's according to Tri-States Public Radio.

The public radio station reports that Dr. Alene Reuschel seriously considered retirement this year after the governor proposed cutting pension benefits for educators.  However,  she decided she had too much work left to do.

She feels the board will have plenty of time to hire a search firm and have her successor in place by August of 2013.

Reuschel has been the superintendent for five years.  She began her career as an educator student-teaching in Macomb.