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Download full textCarver-Thomas, Desiree; Patrick, Susan – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
Offering competitive teacher compensation is an important part of the solution to recruit and retain a strong and diverse teacher workforce. The maps and associated tables that follow show three teacher wage indicators for the nation and each state: (1) average annual starting salary for public school teachers; (2) average annual starting salary…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Wages, Public School Teachers
Building a Well-Qualified Transitional Kindergarten Workforce in California: Needs and Opportunities
Melnick, Hanna; García, Emma; Leung-Gagné, Melanie – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
In 2021, California made major new investments to advance its commitment to early childhood education through universal preschool. One important investment was extending state funding for transitional kindergarten (TK), previously just for older 4-year-olds, to all 4-year-olds by 2025-26. To ensure the quality of new preschool investments,…
Descriptors: Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten, Teacher Qualifications, Labor Force Development
Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Leung, Melanie; Burns, Dion – Learning Policy Institute, 2021
California will need a stable, high-quality teacher workforce to weather the COVID-19 crisis and support student learning in the coming years. However, persistent and worsening teacher shortages threaten the state's ability to meet that need. Teacher shortages, which are often most acute in high-need fields and high-need schools, more severely…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Teacher Shortage, Labor Turnover
Darling-Hammond, Linda; Bastian, Kevin C.; Berry, Barnett; Carver-Thomas, Desiree; Kini, Tara; Levin, Stephanie; McDiarmid, G. Williamson – Learning Policy Institute, 2022
This brief summarizes a 2019 study of educator supply, demand, and quality in North Carolina conducted by the Learning Policy Institute in collaboration with the Education Policy Initiative at Carolina and WestEd. That study supported the state's ongoing efforts to meet the standard set in the North Carolina Supreme Court's decision in…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Elementary Secondary Education, Court Litigation, Educational Quality
