{"id":22441,"date":"2014-07-18T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=22441"},"modified":"2014-08-08T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-08T15:47:05","slug":"florida-teachers-more-likely-to-leave-the-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2014\/07\/18\/florida-teachers-more-likely-to-leave-the-profession\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Teachers More Likely To Leave The Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18870\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18870\" alt=\"Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2013\/06\/6-4-TeacherFuoco-620x465.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">John O&#39;Connor \/ StateImpact Florida<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarasota County math teacher Brenda Fuoco.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Florida teachers are leaving the classroom at a faster rate than the national average, according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/all4ed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/PathToEquity.pdf\">new study by the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Richard Ingersoll for the Alliance for Excellent Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>About 8 percent of Florida teachers left the classroom from 2008 to 2009. Nationally, 6.8 percent of teachers left the classroom during the same period. Florida&#8217;s rate of attrition is higher than other large states, such as California, Illinois, New York and Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, those rates are higher at schools with a high percentage of low-income or minority students. Those schools are also more likely to employ teachers with less experience.<\/p>\n<div title=\"Page 5\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Teachers departing because of job dissatisfaction link their decision to leave to inadequate administrative support, isolated working conditions, poor student discipline, low salaries, and a lack of collective teacher influence over schoolwide decisions,&#8221; the report states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ingersoll estimates the turnover cost the Sunshine State between $61.4 million and $133.6 million from 2008 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Long-term, the trend means students are now more likely to have a less experienced teacher. In 1987-1988, the most common amount of teacher experience was 15 years. In 2007-2008, teachers were most often in their first year. The figure has risen to five years&#8217; experience since the Great Recession.<\/p>\n<p>The report recommends formal induction programs, which include several years of mentoring, scheduling a common planning time for teachers and making professional development a priority. <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/08\/17\/how-hillsborough-schools-are-keeping-more-new-teachers-in-the-classroom\/\">Hillsborough County schools have reduced their attrition rate<\/a> with a mentoring program funded in part by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/indianapublicmedia.org\/stateimpact\/\">StateImpact Indiana<\/a> for pointing out the study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida teachers are leaving the classroom at a faster rate than the national average, according to a new study by the University of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Richard Ingersoll for the Alliance for Excellent Education. About 8 percent of Florida teachers left the classroom from 2008 to 2009. Nationally, 6.8 percent of teachers left the classroom during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":18870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[968,172,1119,1067],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22441"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22445,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22441\/revisions\/22445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}