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Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Lindsay, Jim; Wan, Yinmei – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This brief examines the mobility of public school teachers and principals (including assistant principals) in Wisconsin and presents annual and five-year mobility rates between 2006/07 and 2010/11. An average of 8.0 percent of teachers changed schools between consecutive years, and 19.4 percent changed schools within a five-year span. Teachers…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Public School Teachers, Principals, Assistant Principals
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Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Lindsay, Jim; Wan, Yinmei – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
Education leaders have expressed concern about educators' moving to different schools--within the same state or in another state--because these moves create costs for the home district and have potential impacts on the equitable distribution of effective educators among schools. However, many states do not routinely monitor mobility among…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Public School Teachers, Principals, Assistant Principals
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Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Lindsay, Jim; Wan, Yinmei – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This brief examines the mobility of public school teachers and principals (including assistant principals) in Minnesota and presents annual and five-year mobility rates between 2006/07 and 2010/11. An average of 9.5 percent of teachers changed schools between consecutive years, and 20.8 percent changed schools within a five-year span. Teachers…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Public School Teachers, Principals, Assistant Principals
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Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Lindsay, Jim; Wan, Yinmei – Regional Educational Laboratory Midwest, 2016
This brief examines the mobility of public school teachers and principals (including assistant principals) in Iowa and presents annual and five-year mobility rates between 2006/07 and 2010/11. An average of 6.7 percent of teachers changed schools between consecutive years, and 18.9 percent changed schools within a five-year span. Teachers were…
Descriptors: Labor Turnover, Public School Teachers, Principals, Assistant Principals
Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research, 2007
This paper examines late career mobility and retirement decisions for a cohort of mid-career Missouri public school teachers. Specifically, the paper follows a cohort of teachers whose combined age and experience totaled 45 or more years in fall 1991 through the 2005-06 school year. Like many public employee pensions, Missouri has a system that…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Retirement, Elementary Secondary Education, Cohort Analysis
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Pantal, Michel-Ange; Podgursky, Michael; Ehlert, Mark; Hull, Angela M. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2008
Salaries and benefits for instruction are the largest component of school operating costs for public schools (U.S. Department of Education 2007). The level and structure of this compensation can play an important role in the recruitment and retention of a high-quality teaching workforce. Thus, detailed and reliable data on teacher pay and benefits…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, Teacher Recruitment
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Ballou, Dale; Podgursky, Michael – Economics of Education Review, 1995
Examines the performance of public school principals as rated by teachers they supervise. Work experience outside of education does not raise performance ratings, nor does administrative experience or graduate training. The only experience associated with higher performance ratings is teaching experience. Teachers tend to rate a principal of their…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Elementary Secondary Education, Graduate Study