| Total |
100.0 |
100.0 |
100.0 |
| Current teachers |
100.0 |
90.1 |
87.5 |
| Stayers |
† |
74.3 |
74.4 |
| Movers |
† |
15.8 |
10.4 |
| Moved from one public school to another public school in the same school district |
† |
6.4 |
5.2 |
| Moved from one public school district to another public school district |
† |
8.7 |
4.5 |
| Other move2 |
† |
0.8! |
‡ |
| Returners |
† |
† |
2.8 |
| Former teachers |
† |
9.9 |
12.5 |
| Working in the field of education, but not as a regular K–12 classroom teacher3 |
† |
2.8 |
5.0 |
| Working outside the field of education, including military service |
† |
1.7 |
2.4 |
| Other occupational status4 |
† |
5.4 |
5.0 |
| † Not applicable. |
| ! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 30 percent or more of the estimate's value. |
| ‡ Reporting standards not met. |
| 1 These estimates include those who provided 2008–09 data during the 2009–10 data collection. |
| 2 Other move includes moving from a public school to a private school for 2008–09 and moving from a public school to a private school, moving from a private school to a public school, or moving from one private school to another private school for 2009–10. |
| 3 Working in the field of education, but not as a regular K–12 classroom teacher includes those working for a school or school district in a position in the field of K–12 education, but not as a K–12 classroom teacher and those working in a position in the field of Pre-K or postsecondary education. |
| 4 Other occupational status includes those who were students at college or university, those caring for family members, retired, disabled, unemployed and seeking work, and other. |
| NOTE: Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding and because some data are not shown. |
| SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Beginning Teacher Longitudinal Study (BTLS), "First Through Third Wave Preliminary Data File," 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10. |
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