Teacher Characteristics by State
2015-16
Percentage of each state’s teachers with one or two years experience, with emergency or provisional certificate, who plan to leave the profession, and who are teachers of color.
| Inexperienced | Uncertified | Plan to Leave the Profession |
Teachers of Color |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AL | 12.0% | 1.4% | 4.6% | 16% |
| AR | 13.8% | 4.0% | 6.0% | 15% |
| DE | 12.3% | 2.1% | 5.8% | 8% |
| FL | 14.1% | 4.7% | 10.4% | 35% |
| GA | 9.5% | 3.1% | 8.0% | 25% |
| KY | 10.0% | 0.8% | 3.6% | 3% |
| LA | 12.9% | 8.1% | 6.0% | 35% |
| MD | 15.7% | 3.4% | 10.1% | 29% |
| MS | 13.2% | 3.2% | 7.1% | 30% |
| NC | 8.4% | 2.7% | 10.0% | 17% |
| OK | 12.2% | 0.9% | 6.7% | 17% |
| SC | 11.4% | 1.5% | 8.6% | 18% |
| TN | 19.2% | 4.1% | 8.7% | 15% |
| TX | 15.4% | 2.9% | 9.6% | 40% |
| VA | 12.4% | 3.2% | 11.0% | 15% |
| WV | 11.2% | 3.4% | 9.4% | 2% |
| national average | 12.7% | 2.6% | 9.4% | 20% |
Inexperienced: Defined as teachers with one or two years of experience.
Uncertified: Defined as those teachers practicing under an emergency or provisional certificate.
Plan to leave the profession: Defined as teachers planning to leave teaching as soon as possible or as soon as a more desirable job opportunity arises.
Teachers of color: Defined as all teachers except those who identify as non-Hispanic white.
Sources: Learning Policy Institute (2018). Understanding Teacher Shortages: 2018 Update. Primary data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Civil Rights Data Collection, Public-Use Data File 2015-16. Planning to leave the profession primary data from the National Center for Education Statistics’ Public School Teacher File 2016, National Teacher and Principal Survey.