Thread by @ChadLivengood

The stress & chaos of teaching during a once-in-a-century pandemic has some Michigan teachers weighing a departure from public education.

This month in #CrainsForum, I partnered with @chalkbeatDET for a report on teacher turnover destabilizing schools.
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How teacher churn destabilizes schools, costs taxpayers & hurts Michigan's most vulnerable students

@Chalkbeat's @levin_koby & @lamarr_lemee analyzed over 1 MILLION lines of teacher workforce data to track turnover in Mich. schools.

Eye-opening results

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From August through February, 749 teachers have left their classrooms in Michigan in the middle of the school year, a 44% increase from the same period in 2019-2020.

1-in-4 K-12 teachers in Michigan are eligible to retire at any point.

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These stories were published in both @crainsdetroit and @chalkbeatDET.

Go over to Chalkbeat's website to see the full data analysis from @levin_koby & @lamarr_lemee's months-long project on teacher turnover in Michigan and its big impact on urban schools.
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One BIG takeaway from @chalkbeatDET's reporting:

Teachers in Detroit charter schools are leaving the profession each year at an alarmingly high rate.

Nearly 1-in-5 Detroit charter school teachers in fall 2018 were gone from Michigan schools by fall 2019

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Michigan's 2019-20 Teacher of the Year @WonderTeach wrote a guest column on how to stop the bleeding of educators leaving the profession:

Fewer mandates, false narratives and partisan fights over education, please

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#CrainsForum @chalkbeatDET #TellEWA

Q&A with MSU's @KatharineStrunk: Teacher retention starts with compensation, school leadership

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