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.