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Download full textAllison F. Gilmour; Roddy Theobald; Nathan Jones – Grantee Submission, 2023
Recruiting and retaining effective special educators is essential for improving the outcomes of students with disabilities, yet it remains one of the foremost challenges facing special education. In this chapter, the authors provide an overview of the extent to which economic interventions -- such as bonuses, increased salaries, and loan…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Recruitment, Teacher Shortage, Teacher Persistence
Roddy Theobald; Zeyu Xu; Allison Gilmour; Lisa Lachlan-Hache; Liz Bettini; Nathan Jones – National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER), 2023
We study the impact of a bonus policy implemented by Hawai'i Public Schools starting in fall 2020 that raised the salaries of all special education teachers in the state by $10,000. We estimate that the introduction of this policy reduced the proportion of vacant special education teaching positions by 32%, or 1.2 percentage points, and the…
Descriptors: Special Education Teachers, Teacher Shortage, Incentives, Public Schools
Direct linkRoddy Theobald; Zeyu Xu; Alli Gilmour; Lisa Lachlan-Hache; Elizabeth Bettini; Nathan Jones – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background: School systems have struggled to staff special education positions for decades (Billingsley, 1993; Cowan et al., 2016; Mason-Williams et al., 2020), but recent data suggest special education staffing challenges are now a crisis. As of October 2023, 21% of schools, and 30% of high-poverty schools, reported at least one special educator…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Special Education Teachers, Teacher Salaries, Public School Teachers
