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Teacher Trends
 In 2007, there were nearly 3.7 million full time equivalent elementary and secondary school teachers, up 17% since 1997. Of these 3.7 million teachers, only 0.5 million of them teach within private institutions. The number of public school teachers has been rising faster than the number of students enrolling in school, effectively working to decrease student/teacher ratios.
Salaries
The average salary for a teacher is currently near $49,100 per year, effectively rising on average with the national inflation rates.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. (2008). Digest of Education Statistics, 2007 (NCES 2008-022), Chapter 2
Mobility
Every year, teachers leave their current schools for a variety of reasons. Teacher's leaveing institutions on an annual basis, nearly half of them are due to school transfers. Only 9% of the teachers who leave their schools leave the industry all together. The remainder of teachers who leave their schools left due to family reasons or to return to school for further education or degrees.
Over the past 20 years, employee turnover within schools is relatively static. The employee turnover within poverty schools has been greater than public schools. |
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