How experienced are teachers at your school?
By Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
How experienced are the teachers at your neighborhood school? Check out this map we put together of the average teaching experience in San Diego Unified and its charter schools last year, the most recent year available from the state. Here's how to read it: Red = Less than five years of teaching experience Orange = Between five and 10 years Yellow = Between 10 and 15 years Green = Between 15 and 20 years Blue = More than 20 years. Zoom in, because there are lots of schools on the map and they clump together from far away. Also, keep in mind that because this data is a year old, things may have changed at your neighborhood school, especially if a lot of senior teachers took the golden handshake -- a bonus meant to encourage the most experienced and most expensive teachers to leave. (more...)