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Flux in the Educator Labor Market: Acute Staff Shortages and Projected Superintendent Departures. Selected Findings from the Fourth American School District Panel Survey. Data Note: Insights from the American Educator Panels. Research Report. RR-A956-9
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay – RAND Corporation, 2022
Media accounts have described kindergarten through 12th grade teaching staff shortages in 2021-2022 that were severe enough to temporarily close schools for in-person instruction in some areas. Although much has been written about the negative impacts of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on teachers, less is known about the extent…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Charter Schools, Labor Supply
District Leaders' Concerns about Mental Health and Political Polarization in Schools: Selected Findings from the Fourth American School District Panel Survey. Data Note: Insights from the American Educator Panels. Research Report. RR-A956-8
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Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2022
Policymakers had hoped that the 2021-2022 school year would be a chance to recover from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic--related disruptions to schooling. Instead, media reports of staff shortages, heated or even violent school board meetings, increased student misbehavior, low student and teacher attendance, and enrollment declines…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Mental Health, Political Issues
Urban and Rural Districts Showed a Strong Divide during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the Second American School District Panel Survey. Research Report. RR-A956-2
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Berdie, Lisa; Grant, David; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2021
Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, progressively more complete data have shed light on the tremendous variation in districts' approaches to schooling. Some districts have provided fully remote learning since the outset of the pandemic, some have mostly provided in-person learning, and others have fallen somewhere in between. In this report,…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Rural Urban Differences, School Districts
The K-12 Pandemic Budget and Staffing Crises Have Not Panned Out - Yet: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey. Data Note: Insights from the American Educator Panels. Research Report. RR-A956-3
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Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Schwartz, Heather L. – RAND Corporation, 2021
This report presents school district leaders' views about staff turnover, hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Based on the survey responses of 292 district leaders from the American School District Panel (ASDP), the authors found that teacher and principal turnover had not increased substantially…
Descriptors: School Districts, Administrator Attitudes, Kindergarten, COVID-19
COVID-19 and the State of K-12 Schools: Results and Technical Documentation from the Spring 2020 American Educator Panels COVID-19 Surveys. Research Report. RR-A168-1
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Hamilton, Laura S.; Grant, David; Kaufman, Julia H.; Diliberti, Melissa; Schwartz, Heather L.; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan; Young, Christopher J. – RAND Corporation, 2020
This technical report provides information about the sample, survey instrument, and resultant data for the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) surveys that were administered to principals and teachers via RAND's American Educator Panels (AEP) in spring 2020. The AEP COVID-19 surveys focused on how teachers and school leaders navigated the…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
School Districts Have Expanded Nonacademic Services for 2021-2022, While Academic Offerings Remain Much the Same: Selected Findings from the Third American School District Panel Survey. Data Note: Insights from the American Educator Panels. Research Report. RR-A956-4
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Diliberti, Melissa Kay – RAND Corporation, 2021
School districts in the United States are responding to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in significantly different ways. The authors of this report fielded the third American School District Panel (ASDP) survey in June 2021 to discover what changes districts are making to their academic and nonacademic offerings for the upcoming…
Descriptors: School Districts, Pandemics, COVID-19, Educational Change
Remote Learning Is Here to Stay: Results from the First American School District Panel Survey. Research Report. RR-A956-1
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Schwartz, Heather L.; Grant, David; Diliberti, Melissa Kay; Hunter, Gerald P.; Setodji, Claude Messan – RAND Corporation, 2020
U.S. school districts have taken widely varied approaches to reopening public schools for the 2020-2021 school year. The divergence stems from the highly localized approach to both schooling and addressing the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and differences in COVID-19 transmission rates among communities. To develop a national…
Descriptors: Public Schools, COVID-19, Pandemics, School Closing