Charter school teachers more likely to leave teaching

Teachers at charter schools are more than twice as likely to leave the profession as their peers at traditional public schools, according to a new study by the federally funded National Center on School Choice.

That could bode poorly for long-term trends in D.C. schools, where the charter movement is among the most successful in the nation and charter students make up about a third of all public school students. Past studies have shown teacher stability to be a major factor in a school’s progress.