Preliminary Analysis of Ohio's Labor Market for Teachers and Other Education Professionals PDF Download

Author: Howard Fleeter
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 60

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Book Description
The Ohio State Board of Education directed the Department to review issues of teacher supply and demand in order to provide answers to key policy-related questions regarding the topic. In order to create a policy-relevant system and provide the Board with accurate and credible reports on the supply and demand for Teachers in Ohio, the Center for the Teaching Profession, in collaboration with the Office of Policy Research and Analysis, embarked on a study of the currently available information. The firm of Levin and Driscoll was contracted to conduct this study. Howard Fleeter, the lead investigator for the study, reported to the Resources Committee on the findings of the study. The detailed technical report discusses school districts' needs for teachers and administrators from an economic perspective. The report is divided into four parts: an analysis for the demand for educators; an analysis of the supply of teachers in terms of "outflows" - teachers leaving the system through retirement or attrition and those who move across school districts; an analysis of teacher supply "inflows" - beginning teachers and former teachers re-entering the labor market; and a synthesis of the findings from across these analyses. The main findings of the study are the following: Ohio faces teacher shortages in specific subject areas in 2002; special education has the most severe shortages; teacher mobility differs by district type, and large urban and poor rural school districts have difficulty retaining teachers; more minority teachers are needed; the rate of teacher retirement is increasing; Ohio's attrition rate resembles that of other states; teacher attrition is comparable with attrition in other fields; teachers who leave a position often return to teaching; teacher salaries are low when compared to those of other fields, in terms of both current compensation and gain over time; and implementation of the new licensure system (designed to improve quality of teachers in Ohio) needs to be monitored over the next few years.