«Breaking News» Public school teachers quit their jobs at highest rate on record in first 10 months of 2018

Employees working in the public education sector are quitting those roles at faster rates than ever recorded before, according to government data.

People in positions ranging from teachers, community-college faculty, school psychologists and janitors seem to be bucking the stability that historically has drawn so many to those fields.

Instead, they're testing out a tight labor market with historically low unemployment, in hopes of finding something better, possibly with higher pay, which has been a longstanding issue of contention for those working in education. 

People working in the public education field quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 each month during the first 10 months of 2018, according to the Labor Department. 

American workers overall quit at the much higher rate of 231 voluntary departures per 10,000 American workers, but the public education number is still the highest rate for that particular industry since the government started keep track of this data in 2001.  

Employees working in the public education sector quit at the highest rate on record, since data began being collected in 2001, throughout a year that saw statewide protests in Arizona, West Virginia and Oklahoma, some of which left schools closed for as many as nine instruction days,  as teachers worked to bring attention to issues like inadequate pay and per-pupil funding. In this file photo, protesters out of thousands who marched to the Arizona Capitol to protest for higher teacher pay and public school funding in Phoenix in April are shown

Last spring, teachers in Oklahoma protested for better pay and classroom conditions, inclduing 43-year-old Sara Jorve. 

Despite the groups' efforts, the former fifth grade math and science teacher resigned in May, not long after the demonstrations, leaving behind a career she had invested 12 years in.

As a single mother, Jorve told the Wall Street Journal she had been forced to rely on her parents for financial assistance because her salary was so low. 

'I had to quit for my sanity,' Jorve said.  

Part of the reason for low pay has to do with lingering effects of the recession from December 2007 through June 2009, a setback the private sector labor market was able to comeback from years ago. 

Part of the reason for low pay has to do with lingering effects of the recession from December 2007 through June 2009, a setback the private sector labor market was able to comeback from years ago

Education budgets are down at least seven percent from 2009 numbers (after being adjusted for inflation) in at least 12 states, according to analysis of census data by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. 

Nearly a decade later, salaries for teachers throughout the US are now down five percent from 2009 figures, (again, after being adjusted for inflation), data from the National Education Association, the nation’s largest teachers union, showed.

That's even with the largest average annual raise in nearly a decade for public-education employees, with a 2.2 percent increase in the third quarter of 2018 as compared to 2017, not adjusted for inflation, per Labor Department data.

The spike in educators like Jorve leaving their jobs stands in stark contrast to rates in 2009, at the first signs of growth in the economy following the recent recession. 

At that time, the rate was just 48 per 10,000 public education workers quitting each month, which was a record low.

People working in the public education field quit at an average rate of 83 per 10,000 each month during the first 10 months of 2018, according to the Labor Department. In 2009, the rate was 48 per 10,000 public education workers quitting each month, which was a record low

'During the recession, education was a safe place to be,' Julia Pollak, labor economist at ZipRecruiter, told WSJ.

That same year, unemployment reached the highest it had been since the 1980s, at 10 percent. 

In 2018, unemployment shrank to its lowest number since 1969, at 3.7 percent.   

Schools have reportedly had difficultly filling positions with qualified personnel since at least 2015, which has resulted in temporary placements being offered to people without formal training, according to the Learning Policy Institute, a nonpartisan education-policy research group.  

With the high rate at which educators are now leaving the field, that trend is likely to continue with greater frequency.    

And despite offering temporary positions to people without credentials, more and more states are now requiring teachers to have earned a master's degree for full-time employment. 

Faced with the prospect of taking out student loans to fulfill that requirement, some are simply leaving the field. 

Ironically, in quitting Jorve found herself going back to school over the summer to become a cardiovascular ultrasound technician.    

Over a span of 12 months ending in October, one million people left jobs in public education, a field in which more than 10 million Americans are employed, Labor Department data showed. 

While this was happening, statewide protest in Arizona, West Virginia and Oklahoma, some of which left schools closed for as many as nine instruction days, brought attention to issues like inadequate pay and per-pupil funding.

Teachers in those states did receive raises, but it wasn't enough for many of them to stick around and continue to deal with out-of-date textbooks and having to take on second jobs to pay their bills. 

With these issues being brought to the nation's attention, education-policy analysts said many more educators were that much more persuaded to move on in their careers. 

'Part of it was compensation,' Alice Cain, executive vice president of Teach Plus, a policy organization working with a network of 26,000 teachers, said.

'But part of this was that their students weren’t valued, and that the public education system in our country isn’t a priority in so many places.'

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