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DATE: August 21, 2023
Michigan lost thousands of experienced teachers during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the start of the 2018-19 school year, nearly 45 percent of the state’s teachers had more than 10 years of experience. By the fall of 2022, that had dropped to just over 35 percent, according to state data.
While there are many factors that come into play in those gains and losses – among them how many experienced teachers a district had in the first place – overall turnover and departures from teaching altogether were highest at the lowest performing schools, according to a recent report from the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative.
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