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Why do so many new Oakland teachers leave? Some have no choice.
- 10-14-2010
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By Katy Murphy/Contra Costa Times
A new report to be presented at tonight’s school board meeting (agenda here) shows that 73 percent of teachers hired by the Oakland school district in 2004 were no longer in the classroom, five years later. Using several years’ worth of data, the district found that 28 percent of its new teachers didn’t return for a second year; about 48 percent didn’t come back for a third, and 60 percent didn’t return for a fourth (such as Andy Kwok, right, the rookie teacher we followed in 2007-08). Through surveys and the district’s personnel data, the New Teacher Support & Development Department tried to find out why 887 teachers hired between 2004 and 2008 had left. They collected 491 responses. You might be surprised by one of the top reasons new teachers leave their Oakland classrooms: they have no choice. Nearly 160 of those teachers were released by the district — presumably after their first or second year of teaching, before earning tenure. (more…)
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