Highlights from 2013 Alaska Educator Supply, Demand and Turnover report

The UAA Center for Alaska Education Policy Research (CAEPR) has released a preview of findings from the forthcoming report, "2013 Alaska Educator Supply, Demand and Turnover." A few highlights include: 

• Teacher turnover in Alaska has declined slightly in the last few years, but not significantly.
• Annual teacher turnover rates vary hugely among rural districts, ranging from a low of seven percent to above 52 percent, while urban districts have turnover rates that are generally lower and more similar, from about eight percent to just over 10 percent.
• Among teachers with less than 10 years of experience, those who prepared to be teachers in Alaska have much lower turnover rates than those from Outside. Among teachers with more than 10 years of experience, turnover rates for the two groups are about the same.
• Teachers prepared in Alaska are far more likely to work in urban than in rural districts.
• Almost 90 percent of teachers in Alaska are white. Alaska Natives and American Indians continue to make up only about five percent of the teacher workforce.

For a PDF copy of the brief, click here. For more information on this and other research, visit the CAEPR website.

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