INTRO – The state’s teacher turnover rate in the public schools rose slightly in the last school year. George Olsen has more.
A press release from the state Department of Public Instruction reports 14.84 percent of public school teachers left their districts last school year, a slight increase from the prior year’s 14.12 percent. The actual number of teachers who left was 14,255. Over 96,000 teachers were employed by the public schools last year. The largest group of teachers left for personal reasons, which covers career change, dissatisfaction with the career or moving to another state. The second largest group remained in education though not in their current district or in the public school system. State schools superintendent June Atkinson noted it was the fourth time in the past five years that the turnover rate increased. I’m George Olsen.
