The True Cost of Teach For America’s Impact on Urban Schools

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The True Cost of Teach For America’s Impact on Urban Schools

The Alliance for Excellent Education, an education policy organization, found that about half a million teachers leave their schools each year, and only 16 percent of this attrition is due to retirement. The remaining 84 percent can be attributed to teacher transfers between schools (most often transferring into schools with higher-income students) or leaving the profession altogether.