Table 6. Percentage of beginning public school teachers who renewed their teaching certificate or added a content area, field, or grade levels to their teaching certificate before December 31, 2008, by selected teacher and school characteristics: School year 2009–10
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| Total | | 23.7 | | 15.7 | |
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| Age | | | | | |
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| Less than 30 years | | 23.1 | | 11.6 | |
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| 30 or more years | | 24.9 | | 22.6 | |
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| Grade level1 | | | | | |
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| Primary/middle | | 23.1 | | 18.7 | |
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| High/combined | | 27.3 | | 11.7 | |
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| Community type2 | | | | | |
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| City/suburban | | 24.4 | | 17.3 | |
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| Town/rural | | 24.9 | | 14.8 | |
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Percent of K-12 students who were approved
for free or reduced-price lunches3 |
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| 0-49 | | 22.9 | | 15.1 | |
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| 50 or more | | 26.6 | | 16.4 | |
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School did not participate in free or
reduced-price lunch program |
| 21.2 | | 15.7 | ! |
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| ! Interpret data with caution. The standard error for this estimate is equal to 30 percent or more of the estimate's values. |
| 1 About 1.8 percent of teachers in 2009-10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values. |
| 2 About 0.2 percent of teachers in 2009-10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values. |
| 3 About 1.9 percent of teachers in 2009-10 were excluded from the analysis due to missing values. |
| 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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