10-25-22 Testimony on Teacher Turnover by Mary Levy
/My role in the issue of teacher turnover for a long time has been to study and say what it is. In short, except for a two-year pandemic decrease, for the last ten years the average public school has lost one-fourth of its classroom teachers every year.
OSSE’s report of last spring is welcome, but only lays out city-wide information. This is useful for public policy, but for accountability and effective action, we at least need the DCPS and the charter sector distinguished, and beyond that information at the school level because school level is what counts for the students.
Fortunately, OSSE did provide a database with full retention data by school, which I have turned it into a more user-friendly format, accompanied by analysis. That information is posted on the website of the Coalition for DC Public Schools, C4DC.
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