SLIDE 29 Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org Richard Woods, Georgia’s School Superintendent “Educating Georgia’s Future” gadoe.org
The he Reality ality
- Two hundred thousand teachers (200,000) leave the profession each
year
- One hundred thousand classrooms (100,000) will be staffed by an
instructor who is not fully qualified to teach in 2018-2019
- Ninety three percent (93%) of open teaching positions are created by
teachers who leave the profession
- Two thirds (2/3) of teachers leave for other reasons, most due to
dissatisfactions with teaching
- There are fifty percent (50%) higher turnover rates in Title I schools,
which serve more low-income students AND
- Seventy percent (70%) higher for teachers in schools serving the largest
concentrations of students of color Shortages also persist in specific areas: mathematics, science, special education,
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