IBO Studies Changes In City Schools' Workforce
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The city Independent Budget Office's first comprehensive report on city schools shows fewer teachers are leaving the system after three years.
The report, using never-before-released data from the Department of Education, found that 20 percent of teachers still spend three years or less on the job.
Yet that is down 10 percent from 2003.
The study also found a changing workforce.
"There's been some real change in the make-up of the teaching force and the principal force," said IBO Deputy Director George Sweeting. "If you look back over 10 years, they've become somewhat younger, somewhat less experienced. There are more women involved in many cases in those positions."
The report also found that students have a better chance at success being from a high poverty household and attending a low poverty school than coming from a wealthier home and going to a school that serves a higher population of poor students.