Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers out of Urban Classrooms.

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Author	Levin, Jessica Quinn, Meredith
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	This report examines urban district hiring practices and their effect on applicant attrition and teacher quality, analyzing data from four hard-to-staff urban districts collected via telephone surveys with applicants who left for other districts, written surveys, focus groups with preservice and inservice teachers, and applicant tracking data. Results indicated that with aggressive recruitment, teachers applied in large numbers. However, all of the districts failed to make job offers until midto-late summer, which left applicants hanging in limbo for months. Frustrated with waiting, 31 to 60 percent of applicants withdrew from the hiring process, often to accept jobs with districts that made offers earlier. Many of the best candidates with the most options were the most likely to abandon hard-to-staff districts in the face of hiring delays, forcing districts to fill their vacancies from applicant pools with higher percentages of unqualified and uncertified teachers. Most teachers who withdrew their applications were committed to teaching in urban schools, and many wanted jobs in high-needs areas. Three widespread hiring policies tied the hands of human resources departments: vacancy notification requirements, teacher union transfer requirements, and late budget timetables and inadequate forecasting. Recommended solutions include revising teacher notification requirements, reforming collective bargaining transfer requirements, and addressing budget barriers. An appendix charts the roles of various stakeholders in the reform effort. (Contains 21 endnotes.) (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the ori inal document. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND 00 EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION 0 DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS CENTER (ERIC) BEEN GRANTED BY \r) Vhis document has been reproduced as ,I received from the person or organization 00 originating it. 7t0 Minor changes have been made to s,T. Le Ak... improve reproduction quality. C:I c-T111e,_ISIELI) 're_afilteEn* 49 Ct. Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent official OERI position or policy. Missed Opportunities: How We Keep High-Quality Teachers Out of Urban Classrooms By Jessica Levin and Meredith Quinn Copy Tight © 2003, The New Teacher Project All rights reserved. 4,) The New Teacher Project
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