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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

What do the available data tell us about NYC charter school teachers & their jobs? « School Finance 101

What do the available data tell us about NYC charter school teachers & their jobs? « School Finance 101:


What do the available data tell us about NYC charter school teachers & their jobs?

This post is about rolling out some of the left over data I have from my various endeavors this summer.  These data include data from New York State personnel master files (PMFs) linked to New York City public schools and charter schools, NYC teacher value-added scores, and various bits of data on New York City charter and district schools including school site budget/annual financial report information.
Here, I use these data combined with some of my previous stuff, to take a first, cursory shot at characterizing the teaching workforce of charter school teachers in New York City. All findings use data from 2008 to 2010.
To summarize the following figures, New York City charter school teachers:
  1. Are relatively inexperienced (but not all in their first 3 years)