Teacher turnover costs state’s school districts around $20M per year

Alaska school districts hire about 1,000 teachers each year, approximately 70 percent of which come from the Lower 48. (Graphic from the Alaska Superintendents Association)Alaska schools hire about 1,000 new teachers each year to offset the annual turnover of staff. And it’s a process that doesn’t come cheap.
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$20 million is the approximate cost of replacing teachers lost to attrition each year throughout the state, according to a recent study by the Institute for Social an