Charter administrators reported greater difficulty recruiting and hiring teachers and much higher teacher turnover, but far less difficulty removing poor teachers, than non-charter administrators in 2017¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? In 2017, 55 percent of charter administrators said recruiting and hiring the right teachers was a top roadblock, compared to 42 percent of non-charter administrators. → Bruzgulis 2019 q2 i? In 2017, 34 percent of charter administrators said teacher turnover was a significant or complete roadblock, while only 14 percent of non-charter administrators had similar levels of concern. → Bruzgulis 2019 q2 i? In 2017, difficulty removing poor teachers was a top roadblock for 18 percent of charter administrators versus 54 percent of non-charter administrators. → Bruzgulis 2019

Evidence¶

Bruzgulis 2019¶

Bruzgulis, A., Hart, H., & Young, C. (2019). The challenges facing CPS administrators: Roadblocks to school improvement. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/challenges-facing-cps-administrators

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Descriptive comparison of charter and non-charter administrators' 2017 survey responses (Figure 3); the brief reports charter administrators rated recruiting and hiring higher (55 vs. 42 percent), turnover higher (34 vs. 14 percent), and removing poor teachers lower (18 vs. 54 percent).

"In 2017, more than one-half of all charter school administrators (55 percent) said that recruiting and hiring the right teachers was a top roadblock in their schools, compared to 42 percent of non-charter administrators."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Human-resource roadblocks rose sharply from 2009 to 2017: difficulty removing poor teachers increased from 39 to 48 percent, and concern over recruiting and hiring the right teachers nearly quadrupled from 12 to 44 percent — related
• High school, new, and low-achieving-school principals perceive significantly more difficulty recruiting and hiring the right teachers — related
• Teachers with high job and workplace satisfaction have less than half the predicted turnover of teachers with low satisfaction (8.0% vs. 22.0%) — related
• Turnover is higher in charter schools (17.8%) than traditional public schools (14.9%) and higher in city schools (17.7%) than other locales — related
• Schools reporting hiring difficulties are almost twice as likely to have above-average teacher turnover rates — related
• Latent class analysis of roadblock responses identified three roughly equally sized administrator groups—Limited, Moderate, and Considerable Roadblocks—differing in breadth and depth of concern — related