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Table 12.3. |
Percentage of public school teachers who agreed or strongly agreed that student misbehavior and student tardiness and class cutting interfered with their teaching and that school rules are enforced by other teachers and by the principal, by state: School year 2007–08 |
| State | Interfered with teaching | School rules enforced | State | Interfered with teaching | School rules enforced | |||||||||||||
| Student misbehavior |
Student tardiness and class cutting |
By other teachers1 |
By the principal2 |
Student misbehavior |
Student tardiness and class cutting |
By other teachers1 |
By the principal2 |
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| United States | 36.1 | 33.5 | 70.6 | 88.0 | ||||||||||||||
| Alabama | 35.0 | 32.4 | 74.7 | 88.4 | Montana | 32.2 | 36.4 | 75.0 | 89.8 | |||||||||
| Alaska | 40.2 | 49.6 | 71.6 | 88.7 | Nebraska | 32.5 | 32.3 | 76.1 | 87.5 | |||||||||
| Arizona | 40.6 | 41.1 | 68.4 | 88.3 | Nevada | 36.9 | 38.9 | 69.0 | 87.0 | |||||||||
| Arkansas | 32.4 | 35.8 | 73.7 | 90.4 | New Hampshire | 32.4 | 30.9 | 65.3 | 83.8 | |||||||||
| California | 35.8 | 39.0 | 69.1 | 86.7 | New Jersey | 33.4 | 25.0 | 71.5 | 89.9 | |||||||||
| Colorado | 30.9 | 39.2 | 75.9 | 88.9 | New Mexico | 44.8 | 50.5 | 61.5 | 83.4 | |||||||||
| Connecticut | 34.5 | 29.0 | 67.3 | 86.3 | New York | 36.9 | 37.4 | 67.4 | 85.2 | |||||||||
| Delaware | 45.5 | 32.5 | 64.1 | 87.4 | North Carolina | 34.2 | 37.6 | 69.2 | 86.6 | |||||||||
| District of Columbia | 58.7 | 47.4 | 66.3 | 73.6 | North Dakota | 30.1 | 26.0 | 73.9 | 89.4 | |||||||||
| Florida | 35.7 | 35.2 | 67.0 | 89.5 | Ohio | 36.8 | 30.0 | 69.1 | 88.7 | |||||||||
| Georgia | 35.2 | 27.1 | 78.3 | 90.8 | Oklahoma | 35.1 | 38.3 | 75.1 | 88.3 | |||||||||
| Hawaii | 46.7 | 49.0 | 60.6 | 82.6 | Oregon | 30.8 | 35.9 | 76.6 | 88.6 | |||||||||
| Idaho | 35.0 | 33.6 | 71.8 | 90.0 | Pennsylvania | 28.6 | 24.8 | 71.5 | 89.1 | |||||||||
| Illinois | 35.3 | 31.2 | 68.0 | 87.1 | Rhode Island | 37.9 | 38.6 | 68.9 | 81.7 | |||||||||
| Indiana | 42.3 | 35.6 | 72.8 | 86.5 | South Carolina | 38.8 | 35.3 | 73.9 | 91.4 | |||||||||
| Iowa | 38.1 | 32.7 | 69.6 | 87.1 | South Dakota | 37.1 | 36.6 | 68.6 | 84.7 | |||||||||
| Kansas | 34.9 | 33.5 | 69.5 | 88.5 | Tennessee | 38.3 | 32.9 | 72.2 | 89.4 | |||||||||
| Kentucky | 39.1 | 32.9 | 71.8 | 87.7 | Texas | 37.1 | 31.5 | 70.3 | 88.7 | |||||||||
| Louisiana | 38.2 | 28.1 | 70.9 | 91.4 | Utah | 37.5 | 40.4 | 78.0 | 90.9 | |||||||||
| Maine | 30.0 | 34.0 | 67.4 | 86.3 | Vermont | 33.2 | 26.0 | 67.1 | 87.6 | |||||||||
| Maryland | 44.3 | 33.4 | 75.3 | 86.4 | Virginia | 35.4 | 34.6 | 69.2 | 84.2 | |||||||||
| Massachusetts | 34.1 | 29.9 | 71.2 | 88.5 | Washington | 32.7 | 32.9 | 73.3 | 91.1 | |||||||||
| Michigan | 36.4 | 32.3 | 71.3 | 88.5 | West Virginia | 36.2 | 38.7 | 70.5 | 89.6 | |||||||||
| Minnesota | 39.2 | 34.6 | 71.6 | 89.5 | Wisconsin | 38.2 | 30.2 | 65.5 | 86.2 | |||||||||
| Mississippi | 41.8 | 36.0 | 71.5 | 87.0 | Wyoming | 34.7 | 40.9 | 72.2 | 86.8 | |||||||||
| Missouri | 35.2 | 28.1 | 74.7 | 90.9 | ||||||||||||||
| 1 Respondents were asked whether “rules for student behavior are consistently enforced by teachers in this school, even for students not in their classes.” | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2 Respondents were asked whether their “principal enforces school rules for student conduct and backs me up when I need it.” | ||||||||||||||||||
| NOTE: Teachers who taught only prekindergarten students are excluded. The public sector includes public, public charter, and Bureau of Indian Education school teachers. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding. | ||||||||||||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), “Public School Teacher Data File,” 2007–08; and “Bureau of Indian Education Teacher Data File,” 2007–08. | ||||||||||||||||||
