The increased exit among more - experienced teachers was accompanied by declines in average teacher experience of 0.41 years, or 2.6 percent, for every teacher with 15 or more years of experience
before ERI.
The earliest age at which retirement benefit collection could have taken place
before the ERI is 55; with the ERI, teachers can retire at age 50 or older.
First, we find that having one more teacher with 15 or more years of experience in a school
before ERI increased the number of experienced teachers exiting each year during the ERI period by 33 percent.
Overall, for each teacher with 15 or more years of experience
before ERI, the number of new teachers in a school increased by 0.073, or 20 percent.
Not exact matches
In other words, schools with more veteran teachers
before the creation of the
ERI program experienced much larger changes in teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teachers.
As I pointed out
before, the switchover referred to is from one type of bucket to another and not from bucket to
ERI.