This report results from a partnership between the State of Florida and College Measures. It focuses on the median first-year earnings of recent graduates and completers from Florida's public postsecondary educational institutions: SUS, FCS, and DTCs. The report documents the variation in first-year earnings for completers who earned degrees or…

Each day in America, millions of kids go home to an empty house after school. In recent years, the growth of quality, affordable afterschool programs has begun to offer positive alternatives to the parents of these children. In 2009, the Afterschool Alliance contracted with RTi, a market research firm, to conduct a household survey of nearly…

This report of teacher supply and demand in Florida looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1984-85 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1986-87, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. As seen in prior years, some fields showed a much…

This is the third annual report of teacher supply and demand in Florida. It looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1983-84 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1985-86, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. Teacher vacancies in Florida…

This report of teacher supply and demand in Florida looks at measures of teacher shortages during the 1985-86 school year, compares the projected supply of teachers by subject field with the numbers needed during 1987-88, and then projects the demand for teachers through the end of the century. Also included are status reports on programs which…

The likely retirement age of "baby boomers" among the tenured faculty in the State University System (SUS) will coincide with a steep increase in the population of traditional college-age students over the next ten years. The majority (53.5%) of SUS faculty were born in the baby boom years between 1943 and 1959. This group is already…

The Florida edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) 2009 "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the third annual look at state policies impacting the teaching profession. It is hoped that this report will help focus attention on areas where state policymakers can make changes that will have a positive impact on teacher…