Hoping to stem the defection of young, effective teachers, Breaux created the Framework for Inducting, Retaining, and Supporting Teachers (FIRST), which reduced the school system's
teacher attrition rate by 80 percent.
Not exact matches
Since implementing the program in 1996, the
attrition rate of new
teachers has decreased
by more than 80 percent.
The red line shows the actual
attrition rates as calculated
by theNew York City Independent Budget Office for the 9,437
teachers who began teaching in New York City in the 2001 - 2 school year, the most recent time period for which we have 10 years of data.
The blue line comes from a 2003report
by Richard Ingersoll which used the Schools and Staffing Survey to calculate the national
attrition rate for the first five years of a
teacher's career.
Although the recent recession slowed the
teacher exodus somewhat,
teacher turnover
rates are exceptionally high, according to the report, which found that from 1988 to 2008,
teacher attrition rose
by 41 percent.
National data indicate that the public school
teacher attrition rate of 7.68 % in 2012 represented a loss of 238,000
teachers in that year, Calculated
by taking the total number of FTE
teachers in 2011 — 12 and multiplying it
by the 2011 — 12
attrition rate.
Calculated
by taking the total number of FTE
teachers in 2011 — 12 and multiplying it
by the 2011 — 12
attrition rate.
Retirements, coupled with
teacher attrition rates (nearly 30 % quitting teaching during their first three years), could lead to a tremendous
teacher shortage
by the year 2010.
But policy makers are often frustrated
by the seemingly high
rates of
attrition among
teachers earlier on in their careers.
The national study doesn't include a state -
by - state analysis, but it does include details on how
teacher pay factors into
attrition rates, specifically:
According to a study released
by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics in 2015, the five - year
attrition rate for new
teachers is closer to 17 percent, not 50.
While Gleason focuses on the struggles of black
teachers, some of the problems they face are relevant to Asian American
teachers — particularly that their high
attrition rates result from feeling isolated and furthermore, stereotyped
by white
teachers and their students.