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Andrew Camp; Gema Zamarro; Josh McGee; Taylor Wilson; Miranda Vernon – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Attracting and retaining high-quality teachers in the profession is a matter of significant policy concern. Increasing teacher salaries and creating more attractive compensation packages are often proposed to achieve this goal. However, average real teacher salaries have remained stagnant over the past decade and have not fully recovered from the…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Teacher Employment Benefits, Teacher Shortage
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Schilling, Ethan; Boan-Lenzo, Candace; Randolph, Mickey – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2023
Job burnout in school psychologists has been recognized as a problem in the field for many years. The contributors to burnout are varied and may include personal as well as professional variables. This research examined the impact the demographic variables of age, years in the field/current job, grade level worked with, type of community worked…
Descriptors: Burnout, School Psychologists, Age Differences, Experience
Anthony W. Burkhammer – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this study was to determine the motivators and hygienes that affect the job satisfaction and classroom efficacy of community college faculty in Arkansas. Using Herzberg's Two-Factor Theory, this research found motivating factors, such as the nature of the work, autonomy and independence, and professional relationships to be…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Hygiene, Job Satisfaction
McDole, Tiffany; Francies, Cassidy – Education Commission of the States, 2022
Teacher shortages continue to be a challenge for state policymakers, and while national media coverage paints a picture of widespread shortages, a closer examination reveals that shortages tend to be concentrated in specific subjects and schools. The primary policy response to shortages is often to recruit more teachers, but research demonstrates…
Descriptors: State Policy, Educational Policy, Teacher Shortage, Minority Group Teachers
Arkansas Department of Education, 2024
This Annual Statistical Report of the Public Schools of Arkansas, Open Enrollment Public Charter Schools, and Education Service Cooperatives, 2023-2024 Actual and 2024-2025 Budgeted (ASR) is submitted in compliance with the provisions of A.C.A. ยง 6-20-2201 et seq. The information contained in the report was obtained from the Annual Financial…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Education Service Centers, School Districts
Arkansas Department of Education, 2023
The public schools of Arkansas, open enrollment public charter schools, and education service cooperatives annual statistical report (ASR), 2021-2022 actual and 2022-2023 budgeted, is presented here. The rankings of selected items of the public schools, 2021-2022 actual, are also included. The school districts are listed according to Local…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Education Service Centers, School Districts
Gema Zamarro; Andrew Camp; Josh McGee; Taylor Wilson; Miranda Vernon – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Attracting and retaining high-quality teachers is a pressing policy concern. Increasing teacher salaries and creating more attractive compensation packages are often proposed as a potential solution. Signed into law in March 2023, the LEARNS Act increased Arkansas's minimum teacher salary from $36,000 to $50,000, guaranteed all teachers a minimum…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Faculty Mobility, Labor Turnover, School Districts
Nicholas W. Affrunti – National Association of School Psychologists, 2023
The current brief provides an overview of the 2021-2022 school year student-to-school psychologist ratio for every United States territory, using the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) counts of school psychologists. In addition to this, data are presented on the percentage change in student-to-school psychologist ratio from the…
Descriptors: School Psychologists, Counselor Client Ratio, Public Schools, Elementary Schools
Arkansas Department of Education, 2022
The public schools of Arkansas, open enrollment public charter schools, and education service cooperatives annual statistical report (ASR), 2020-2021 actual and 2021-2022 budgeted, is presented here. The rankings of selected items of the public schools, 2020-2021 actual, are also included. The school districts are listed according to Local…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Charter Schools, Education Service Centers, School Districts
Brittany Sayna Samaniego – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study investigated the impact of leadership behaviors and additional factors on teacher morale across seven schools from three Arkansas school districts. The study utilized the "Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)" and "Purdue Teacher Opinionaire (PTO)" as measurement tools to explore various leadership…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Teacher Morale, Teacher Administrator Relationship, High School Teachers
TNTP, 2021
Unfortunately, Arkansas has faced a massive shortage of certified teachers for decades. Statewide, 4 percent of public school teachers are uncertified, with another 3 percent teaching out of field. In many districts, the percentage of uncertified is much higher: as high as 56 percent in the Helena-West Helena School District, and 52 percent in the…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Geographic Regions, Minority Group Students
Arkansas Division of Higher Education, 2021
This publication provides governmental and higher education decision-makers a statewide perspective of Arkansas public higher education finance for the 2021-23 biennium, as well as trends for the past several years. It also contains a detailed financial profile of each institution and presents a basis for comparative assessments of revenue sources…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Colleges, Educational Finance, Income
TNTP, 2021
Unfortunately, far too many Arkansas students are being taught by teachers who are uncertified in the subject they are teaching. This report analyzes the extent and potential causes of Arkansas' teacher shortage and propose a series of recommendations for state policymakers. Two primary findings about the shortage were identified: (1) Shortages…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Teacher Supply and Demand, Geographic Regions, Minority Group Students