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Percentage distribution of public school teachers, by level of agreement with the statement “I think about transferring to another school” and state: 2017–18

                   
  Level of agreement   Agree or disagree  
State Strongly agree   Somewhat agree   Strongly disagree   Somewhat disagree   Strongly or somewhat
agree		   Strongly or
somewhat disagree		  
United States9.6  22.6  47.2  20.7  32.2 67.8  
                   
Alabama7.4   20.2  51.7  20.7  27.6 72.4  
Alaska12.7   24.3  46.4  16.6  37.0 63.0  
Arizona11.4   23.1  46.2  19.3  34.5 65.5  
Arkansas9.2   22.7  50.0  18.1  31.9 68.1  
California7.7   21.6  51.3  19.5  29.2 70.8  
               
Colorado14.6   26.3  40.7  18.4  40.9 59.1  
Connecticut10.4   19.3  46.5  23.7  29.8 70.2  
Delaware8.2   31.2  38.9  21.7  39.4 60.6  
District of Columbia‡  ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡  
Florida10.3   21.6  46.7  21.4  31.9 68.1  
               
Georgia12.5   26.5  42.5  18.5  39.0 61.0  
Hawaii8.2   27.2  40.8  23.8  35.4 64.6  
Idaho6.5   22.1  50.8  20.6  28.6 71.4  
Illinois8.0   23.3  47.9  20.8  31.3 68.7  
Indiana8.4   24.3  45.1  22.3  32.6 67.4  
               
Iowa8.9   25.9  44.0  21.2  34.8 65.2  
Kansas10.9   21.1  48.2  19.8  32.0 68.0  
Kentucky9.9   21.5  46.1  22.5  31.4 68.6  
Louisiana9.7   18.8  52.9  18.6  28.5 71.5  
Maine6.4   21.1  50.3  22.3  27.5 72.5  
               
Maryland‡  ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡ ‡  
Massachusetts7.5   21.0  51.2  20.3  28.5 71.5  
Michigan10.0   22.7  48.5  18.8  32.7 67.3  
Minnesota8.6   22.1  44.7  24.6  30.7 69.3  
Mississippi12.9   21.8  45.5  19.7  34.7 65.3  
                         
Missouri8.1  19.6  48.1  24.2  27.7  72.3  
Montana6.4 21.6 49.7 22.3 28.0 72.0  
Nebraska8.0 21.4 49.1 21.5 29.4 70.6  
Nevada12.3 25.0 42.5 20.2 37.3 62.7  
New Hampshire7.0 22.7 48.8 21.5 29.7 70.3  
              
New Jersey6.4 19.5 54.7 19.4 25.9 74.1  
New Mexico10.0 25.9 44.8 19.3 35.9 64.1  
New York5.7 18.7 55.1 20.5 24.4 75.6  
North Carolina12.4 23.5 45.1 19.0 35.9 64.1  
North Dakota7.5 23.3 48.1 21.1 30.9 69.1  
              
Ohio10.1 21.6 48.7 19.6 31.7 68.3  
Oklahoma9.9 20.7 49.1 20.3 30.6 69.4  
Oregon7.5 25.6 40.6 26.4 33.1 66.9  
Pennsylvania8.4 22.0 49.4 20.2 30.4 69.6  
Rhode Island11.7 18.6 50.4 19.2 30.4 69.6  
              
South Carolina11.9 21.4 48.7 18.1 33.2 66.8  
South Dakota8.4 23.2 48.3 20.2 31.6 68.4  
Tennessee8.3 19.5 51.6 20.7 27.8 72.2  
Texas12.1 24.5 42.8 20.5 36.6 63.4  
Utah8.4 20.8 45.0 25.9 29.2 70.8  
              
Vermont8.8 31.8 41.2 18.2 40.6 59.4  
Virginia11.8 23.7 41.0 23.5 35.5 64.5  
Washington10.7 26.3 41.1 21.9 37.0 63.0  
West Virginia6.8 22.6 49.3 21.3 29.4 70.6  
Wisconsin10.2 25.9 40.0 23.9 36.1 63.9  
Wyoming7.5 22.0 51.3 19.1 29.5 70.5  
‡ Reporting standards not met. The response rate is below 50 percent.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Teacher and Principal Survey (NTPS), "Public School Teacher Data File," 2017–18.

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