The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked a public health crisis impacting every aspect of the world. Within education, this crisis caused leaders to navigate through unknown territory. Researchers were overwhelmed seeking to identify effective school leadership before the COVID-19 pandemic. The health crisis has unleashed a host of challenges for…

Due to the current shortage of special education teachers and the rising concerns over attrition and retention, it is important to understand what is contributing to teacher burnout and self-efficacy. This purpose of this quantitative, non-experimental, cross-sectional, predictive study was to determine if there was a predictive relationship…

Teacher turnover has been an unsolved problem for decades and the pipeline of new entrants into the teaching profession is lower than ever before. The Millennial generation is the major source of new talent today. Employers in other sectors have studied this generational cohort's workplace needs to discover how to retain the most mobile…

The current study has gathered responses from teachers employed by a South TexasCharter school network regarding teacher retention factors. The United States Department of Education published an extensive list of teacher shortage areas every year. Schools struggle with the retention and attrition of qualified teachers as student enrollment…

Purpose: Hiring teachers is among principals' most critical work but what remains uncertain is the relationship between a principal's tenure in a school and the rate at which they hire teachers who will stay. Teacher retention and principal experience are key predictors of school stability. This study therefore investigates the influence of…

Substantial teacher turnover poses a challenge to staffing public schools with effective teachers. The scope of the teacher retention challenge across school districts, however, remains poorly defined. Applying consistent data practices and analytical techniques to administrative data sets from 16 urban districts, we document substantial…

Teachers are crucial to student achievement. It therefore becomes important to assure that teachers who can foster student achievement are present in all schools, and that they remain in the teaching field. The most effective teachers are not evenly distributed across schools. Schools with poor, high-minority, and low-achieving students are more…

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of demographic (indicators describing student characteristics), structural (indicators describing school characteristics), student (indicators of student academic achievement), and financial (indicators of instructional expenditures) factors to student mathematics achievement. A sample (n…

The purpose of this study was to examine the possible relationship between selected variables and teacher attrition. Data were analyzed to determine if a relationship did exist between the selected variables and teacher attrition: standardized reading proficiency scores, undergraduate grade point average, gender, and ethnicity. The variables…

Teacher attrition is a significant problem facing schools, with a large percentage of teachers leaving the profession within their first few years. Given the need to retain high-quality teachers, research is needed to identify those teachers with higher retention rates. Using survival analyses and a large state dataset, researchers examined…

The purpose of this study will be to determine if there is a relationship between Hispanic student achievement and the percentage of Hispanic teachers per district in the state of Texas. Specifically, this study will investigate the relationship between the percentage of Hispanic students per district who pass the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and…

Older Texans obtain transportation for nonemergency health care without difficulty by using private automobiles, riding with a relative, friend, or neighbor, or paying someone. Age, race, marital status, having a telephone, and owning an automobile were significantly associated with transportation used. (Author)

This paper extends a series of studies examining school district report cards, which began with investigations of Tennessee's report card data. Since 1988, the Texas State Board of Education has produced a report card on each school district to report district-level data. Texas district report card items were organized into student outcome…