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High turnover reported among charter school teachers
- 07-25-2011
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
In the instant of a job change, Joshua Cook went from being one of the youngest teachers at Crenshaw High, a traditional school in Hyde Park, to nearly the oldest at Animo Justice, a charter school south of downtown Los Angeles. He was 32, with two years of teaching experience. Three years later, he had another distinction: He became one of the astonishingly large numbers of teachers who left a Los Angeles charter school. Around 50% of teachers in charter middle and high schools left their jobs each year over a six-year period studied by UC Berkeley researchers, who released their findings last week. (more...)
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