Wisconsin teacher loss
Harrowing trends and how to reverse them
Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years. Here, we present their voices.
Facing a difficult market for hiring teaching talent, leaders of Wisconsin independent schools are developing useful strategies even as they look to the state for fundamental policy and financial reforms.
Nine policy recommendations for Wisconsin schools to keep teaching talent by correcting the conditions that lead to teacher loss.
Good teachers are essential to school effectiveness and student achievement. What role does character formation play in keeping such educators in the classroom?
Wisconsin was one of the lowest-ranked states in a state-by-state index of teacher morale released by the news outlet Education Week in early March.
Nine policy recommendations for Wisconsin schools to keep teaching talent by correcting the conditions that lead to teacher loss.
Facing a difficult market for hiring teaching talent, leaders of Wisconsin independent schools are developing useful strategies even as they look to the state for fundamental policy and financial reforms.
Wisconsin’s public school teachers are leaving their classrooms at higher rates than they have in more than 25 years. Here, we present their voices.
Good teachers are essential to school effectiveness and student achievement. What role does character formation play in keeping such educators in the classroom?
Wisconsin’s public schools are losing students faster than districts are downsizing their staff, analysis of data from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction shows.
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has flatly stated that the most pressing challenge currently facing the state education system is teacher retention. Two different analyses conducted by the Badger Institute at a statewide level appear to contradict the DPI’s findings.
Starting in 2009-10, transfers between districts for Wisconsin teachers began to steadily climb. The average transfer rate from 2013-14 to 2019-20 of 4.4 percent was 3.6 times greater than the historical baseline.
