WASHINGTON (December 13, 2023) — Eight percent of teachers in public schools exited the profession between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 school years a pivotal time when K-12 education was heavily impacted by the pandemic. This departure rate was unchanged from nearly a decade earlier, according to the Teacher Follow-Up Survey, a longitudinal component of the National Teacher and Principal Survey, released today by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the statistical cente...
