Education Week
A report out this morning from the Consortium on Chicago School Research documents teacher-turnover rates in Chicago's public schools. It finds that on average 51 percent of the teachers working in the city's elementary schools in 2002 had left four years later. In the typical Chicago high school, the study found that 54 percent had left by 2006.
These turnover rates are not any worse than they are in the rest of Illinois or across the nation. Likewise, a lot of those teachers were just moving to other city schools and not leaving the profession altogether...