Chater School Teacher Turnover

From The National Center for Study in Privatizing Education - run by Prof. Henry Levin, Columbia University.

Interesting results - yet the support for charters and the disparagment of unions continues...

clipped from www.ncspe.org Teacher Turnover in Charter Schools. 2009. study examines how teacher turnover differs between charter and traditional public schools and seeks to identify factors that explain these differences Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Fourteen percent of charter school teachers left the profession outright and 11% moved to a different school 7% of traditional public school teachers left the profession and 7% moved schools odds of a charter school teacher leaving the profession versus staying in the same school are 132% greater than those of a traditional public school teacher odds of a charter school teacher moving schools are 76% greater. The data lend minimal support to the claim that turnover is higher in charter schools because they are leveraging their flexibility in personnel policies to get rid of underperforming teachers. Rather, we found most of the turnover in charter schools is voluntary and dysfunctional as compared to that of traditional public schools