Our latest report — Back to the Staffing Surge — measures US
public school employment growth versus student growth as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes over the past 65 years using publicly available data that state departments of education annually report to the U.S. Department of Education.
The ideal dataset to address this question would track teachers from the beginning of their careers through retirement, and include information on their demographics (including gender) and
public school employment for each year.
States like Idaho, Tennessee and Florida are all in the process of implementing reforms that would
make public school employment contingent on some measure of teacher effectiveness.
In Back to the Staffing Surge, Dr. Ben Scafidi, professor and director of the Education Economics Center at Kennesaw State University, measures
U.S. public school employment growth versus student growth, as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes for the past 65 years.
A policy brief and technical report by Jane Arnold Lincove, Nathan Barrett, and Katharine O. Strunk on how and whether the 4,332 New Orleans public school teachers dismissed after Hurricane Katrina returned to
public school employment in Louisiana.
In the case of Window Rock School District v. Reeves, NSBA and the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA), filed an amicus (friend of the court) brief urging the Court to accept review of the Ninth Circuit decision over
this public school employment claim and establish the state's authority.
Clearly he has no intention of doing that, given his recent advocacy of using federal dollars to grow the public school workforce (despite the fact that
public school employment has already grown 11 times faster than enrollment over the past four decades).