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Teachers Leave Charter Schools at High Rates Last updated: Tuesday - September 8, 2009 David A. Stuit and Thomas M. Smith of Vanderbilt reported at the 2009 AERA meeting their research on teachers leaving charter schools. A teacher in a charter school is more than twice as likely to leave the profession than a teacher in a traditional public school. Stuit and Smith analyzed federal data from the 2003-04 school year on 14,400 teachers from charters and traditional public schools in 16 states. For charter schools, about 25% of the teachers left by the end of the school year: 14 percent leaving teaching and 11 percent switching to another school. The turnover rate in the regular public schools in the same states was about 14 percent: 7% leaving teaching and 7% switching schools. Either the freedom from bureaucracy and autonomy that charter schools promise is not a big enough attraction or it is a fiction, as it is in many private schools. Send a Message to the Author RSS |
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