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Teachers and Staff
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Context
Executive Summary: Teachers and Staff
The Five County Region Has More Teachers Than Many Countries
Teacher Demographics
Teacher Distribution
Increasing Numbers of Teachers in the Region (3 Charts)
  1. The number of teachers has grown steadily throughout the region.
  2. The ratio of teachers to students has increased slightly since 1997.
  3. Schools in the Five County Region expect to hire more than 15,000 teachers in 2002-2003.
Student Access to Non-Teaching Staff (2 Charts)
  1. Student access to school nurses is limited, but improving slightly.
  2. Student access to school counselors is limited, but also improving slightly.
Teacher Demographics (3 Charts)
  1. Most teachers are women.
  2. While demographics vary across the region, most teachers are Anglos.
  3. Patterns of teacher race and ethnicity differs markedly from patterns in the general population and enrolled students.
Quality Indicators
The Educational Backgrounds of Teachers
Credentialed Teachers: How Many? How much Variation? (2 Charts)
  1. Despite growth in the system, proportion of teachers who are fully credentialed has remained stable.
  2. While virtually all elementary teachers have appropriate specialized credentials, reading and math teachers frequently do not.
Experienced Teachers: How Common? How Much Variation? (2 Charts)
  1. Experienced teachers are fairly evenly distributed throughout the region.
  2. While there is an "old guard," a substantial proportion of teachers are relatively new.
Which Students Get Which Teachers?
Minority Students (3 Charts)
  1. As the proportion of minority students increases in a district, so does the proportion of minority teachers.
  2. Minority students are less likely to have fully credentialed teachers.
  3. The proportion of minority students in a school has some correlation with the average years of teaching experience in that school.
Poor Students (3 Charts)
  1. Districts with more poor students have more minority teachers.
  2. Poor students are less likely to have fully credentialed teachers.
  3. Poor students are likely to have less experienced teachers.
English Learners
Fully Credentialed Teachers

Last Updated: July 27, 2005
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