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| Table 230.95. | Percentage of public school teachers who agreed that student misbehavior and student tardiness and class cutting interfered with their teaching and that other teachers and the principal enforced school rules, by state: 2011-12 |
| [Standard errors appear in parentheses] | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| State | Interfered with teaching | Enforced school rules | ||||||
| Student misbehavior |
Student tardiness and class cutting |
Other teachers1 | Principal2 | |||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| United States | 40.7 | (0.65) | 37.6 | (0.51) | 67.6 | (0.51) | 83.7 | (0.43) |
| Alabama | 40.9 | (3.36) | 38.6 | (2.82) | 71.8 | (2.84) | 86.8 | (2.26) |
| Alaska | 35.8 | (5.73) | 56.8 | (6.73) | 72.2 | (4.41) | 83.2 | (5.16) |
| Arizona | 41.3 | (2.56) | 44.5 | (2.67) | 67.9 | (2.72) | 83.4 | (2.06) |
| Arkansas | 39.5 | (3.56) | 38.5 | (3.80) | 74.0 | (2.60) | 90.0 | (2.16) |
| California | 38.9 | (2.47) | 39.7 | (2.36) | 69.7 | (1.83) | 83.0 | (1.63) |
| Colorado | 45.5 | (3.54) | 47.6 | (4.02) | 61.7 | (3.39) | 80.6 | (3.28) |
| Connecticut | 37.2 | (2.35) | 28.6 | (3.81) | 61.7 | (3.91) | 80.7 | (2.98) |
| Delaware | 46.7 | (4.47) | 35.2 | (4.58) | 68.7 | (3.58) | 82.9 | (3.32) |
| District of Columbia | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Florida | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Georgia | 38.2 | (3.56) | 32.1 | (3.36) | 71.9 | (2.64) | 85.5 | (2.29) |
| Hawaii | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Idaho | 34.6 | (3.54) | 36.1 | (3.08) | 74.7 | (2.48) | 87.9 | (2.18) |
| Illinois | 40.0 | (2.96) | 33.9 | (3.07) | 66.0 | (3.18) | 83.6 | (2.31) |
| Indiana | 38.8 | (3.33) | 41.0 | (2.95) | 68.4 | (2.47) | 81.8 | (2.99) |
| Iowa | 37.9 | (3.12) | 34.6 | (3.18) | 68.5 | (2.77) | 81.8 | (2.40) |
| Kansas | 32.0 | (3.57) | 24.9 | (2.34) | 70.9 | (3.29) | 91.8 | (1.61) |
| Kentucky | 42.8 | (3.06) | 32.8 | (2.92) | 67.4 | (2.80) | 86.9 | (2.47) |
| Louisiana | 55.1 | (3.92) | 36.1 | (3.60) | 62.5 | (3.19) | 82.1 | (3.89) |
| Maine | 39.1 | (3.00) | 39.2 | (3.02) | 62.9 | (2.90) | 83.2 | (3.06) |
| Maryland | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| Massachusetts | 37.2 | (3.07) | 32.0 | (2.74) | 66.6 | (3.04) | 83.1 | (2.80) |
| Michigan | 46.6 | (2.87) | 40.9 | (2.63) | 67.6 | (2.12) | 84.4 | (2.08) |
| Minnesota | 43.7 | (2.49) | 37.3 | (2.50) | 68.7 | (1.88) | 84.5 | (1.84) |
| Mississippi | 37.4 | (3.30) | 35.6 | (3.40) | 72.4 | (2.96) | 84.5 | (2.51) |
| Missouri | 33.2 | (2.10) | 33.6 | (2.87) | 68.9 | (2.17) | 86.6 | (1.76) |
| Montana | 41.3 | (3.43) | 45.3 | (4.08) | 66.5 | (3.65) | 83.1 | (2.97) |
| Nebraska | 38.2 | (3.01) | 33.6 | (2.81) | 70.9 | (2.73) | 86.7 | (1.66) |
| Nevada | 45.5 | (3.77) | 42.3 | (4.86) | 65.5 | (3.42) | 79.3 | (3.22) |
| New Hampshire | 38.3 | (4.36) | 30.9 | (3.11) | 62.0 | (3.93) | 83.2 | (2.66) |
| New Jersey | 35.9 | (2.36) | 29.9 | (2.29) | 66.8 | (2.06) | 84.4 | (1.70) |
| New Mexico | 39.0 | (4.55) | 54.5 | (5.87) | 64.2 | (3.80) | 78.7 | (4.23) |
| New York | 40.3 | (2.91) | 45.3 | (3.06) | 65.9 | (2.47) | 80.7 | (2.46) |
| North Carolina | 41.9 | (3.13) | 37.0 | (2.94) | 69.0 | (2.58) | 84.0 | (2.34) |
| North Dakota | 34.6 | (3.26) | 33.5 | (3.52) | 70.4 | (2.77) | 86.7 | (2.45) |
| Ohio | 41.8 | (1.95) | 38.8 | (1.96) | 66.4 | (1.73) | 84.7 | (1.55) |
| Oklahoma | 40.1 | (2.74) | 40.8 | (2.87) | 72.5 | (2.47) | 86.5 | (2.12) |
| Oregon | 33.1 | (3.24) | 35.6 | (3.73) | 77.3 | (2.90) | 88.1 | (1.77) |
| Pennsylvania | 40.0 | (2.64) | 33.4 | (2.55) | 65.2 | (2.18) | 82.5 | (1.88) |
| Rhode Island | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) | ‡ | (†) |
| South Carolina | 40.9 | (3.22) | 33.7 | (3.40) | 71.8 | (3.23) | 86.8 | (2.15) |
| South Dakota | 40.1 | (3.10) | 37.2 | (3.92) | 73.2 | (2.91) | 84.8 | (2.53) |
| Tennessee | 41.5 | (3.56) | 40.0 | (3.56) | 71.4 | (3.14) | 88.7 | (2.14) |
| Texas | 45.6 | (2.29) | 35.1 | (2.13) | 65.8 | (2.56) | 81.8 | (1.99) |
| Utah | 39.7 | (3.67) | 45.1 | (4.30) | 75.8 | (3.56) | 89.9 | (2.27) |
| Vermont | 39.9 | (2.61) | 36.2 | (2.62) | 59.2 | (2.59) | 80.5 | (2.28) |
| Virginia | 40.8 | (3.46) | 35.6 | (3.06) | 64.9 | (2.87) | 82.5 | (2.52) |
| Washington | 39.2 | (2.89) | 39.5 | (3.16) | 73.1 | (2.60) | 85.6 | (2.18) |
| West Virginia | 43.9 | (3.87) | 42.4 | (4.09) | 73.4 | (2.90) | 90.4 | (2.58) |
| Wisconsin | 42.7 | (2.70) | 34.2 | (3.07) | 69.5 | (2.87) | 85.8 | (1.70) |
| Wyoming | 30.7 | (4.76) | 40.0 | (4.78) | 73.9 | (3.55) | 89.1 | (3.41) |
| †Not applicable. | ||||||||
| ‡Reporting standards not met. Data may be suppressed because the response rate is under 50 percent, there are too few cases for a reliable estimate, or the coefficient of variation (CV) is 50 percent or greater. | ||||||||
| 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. Includes traditional public and public charter school teachers. Includes both teachers who "strongly" agreed and those who "somewhat" agreed. | ||||||||
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2011-12. (This table was prepared July 2013.) | ||||||||
