CAPE Network News for 8-14-14 Click on above image to enlarge. |
Edited copy of DISD teacher vacancy graph showing the rest of the story of the Dallas ISD growing crisis in teacher turnover. Click on above image to enlarge. |
When the numbers are compared across time you can see the number first year teachers has gone from 460 a year to 1,285 a year in just 3 years. The percent of teacher turnover has gone from 12.9% to 28.5%, well over a 120% increase.
Remember, these are last years numbers. The numbers for 2014/15 are slowly being gathered and appear to be growing.
It has now been verified that the 2014/15 school year started with 1/3 of DISD teachers having one year or less with the district! Since the school year started over 200 more teachers have already resigned as of today. The highest percentage of teachers leaving came from the record number of new teachers hired by DISD this summer.