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Table 1. Number and percentage distribution of public school teacher stayers, movers, and leavers: 1988-89 through 2012-13


Year Number   Percent  
Total base year teachers1   Stayers   Movers   Leavers   Stayers   Movers   Leavers  
1988-89 2,386,500   2,065,800   188,400   132,300   86.5   7.9   5.6  
1991-92 2,553,500   2,237,300   185,700   130,500   87.6   7.3   5.1  
1994-95 2,555,800   2,205,300   182,900   167,600   86.3   7.2   6.6  
2000-01 2,994,700   2,542,200   231,000   221,400   84.9   7.7   7.4  
2004-05 3,214,900   2,684,200   261,100   269,600   83.5   8.1   8.4  
2008-09 3,380,300   2,854,900   255,700   269,800   84.5   7.6   8.0  
2012-13 3,377,900   2,846,500   271,900   259,400   84.3   8.1   7.7  
1 Base year refers to the year in which the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) was administered. The SASS is always administered a year prior to the Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS). The total number of base year teachers for any year is slightly lower than in previously published counts, as all teachers who responded to SASS but were ineligible for TFS (e.g., because they died or moved out of the country) were removed from the weighted count of base year teachers.
NOTE: "Stayers" are teachers who were teaching in the same school in the current school year as in the base year. "Movers" are teachers who were still teaching in the current school year, but had moved to a different school after the base year. "Leavers" are teachers who left the teaching profession after the base year. Total numbers are rounded to the nearest 100. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Teacher Follow-up Survey (TFS), "Current and Former Teacher Data Files," 2012-13; Teacher Attrition and Mobility: Results from the 2008-09 Teacher Follow-up Survey, U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES 2010-353).

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