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June 22, 2007
The high price of turnoverThe National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) has released a study on teacher turnover and created an interactive cost calculator to determine just how much it costs when teachers leave.
From the Web site:
In 2007, the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (NCTAF) completed an 18-month study of the costs of teacher turnover in five school districts – Chicago Public Schools (Chicago, Illinois), Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Granville County Schools (Granville, North Carolina), Jemez Valley Public Schools (New Mexico), and Santa Rosa Public Schools (New Mexico).The selected school districts varied in size, location, and demographics enabling us to explore how these variations affected costs. We examined the costs of recruiting, hiring, processing, and training teachers at both the school and district levels. Our findings indicate that the cost of turnover does vary from district to district, largely dependant upon the size of the district and the types of induction programs the district implements -- but in all cases, the cost of teacher turnover is substantial.
The study and calculator offer some interesting information, especially considering that the estimated cost of teacher turnover nationally is more than $7 billion a year.
Posted June 22, 2007 2:44 PM | Teachers
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