America Is Losing Its Teachers at a Record Rate

America Is Losing Its Teachers at a Record Rate

America Is Losing Its Teachers at a Record Rate

By / Career / Sunday, 30 December 2018 18:21

Frustrated by little pay and better opportunities elsewhere, public school teachers and education employees in the United States are quitting their jobs at the fastest rate on record.

During the first 10 months of the year, public educators, including teachers, community college faculty members, and school psychologists, quit their positions at a rate of 83 per 10,000, Labor Department figures obtained by The Wall Street Journal show. That’s the highest rate since the government started collecting the data in 2001. It’s also nearly double the 48 per 10,000 educators who quit their positions in 2009, the year with the lowest number of departures.

 

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