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1 Leib Sutcher, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Desiree Carver-Thomas, A Coming Crisis in Teaching?
Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S. (Palo Alto: Learning Policy Institute, September
2016), https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/A_Coming_Crisis_
in_Teaching_REPORT.pdf; Tawnell D. Hobbs, “In More High School Classes, the Teacher Is on
a Screen,” Wall Street Journal, October 25, 2018, https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-more-high-
school-classes-the-teacher-is-on-a-screen-1540459802.
2 Digest of Education Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for
Education Statistics, 2017 Tables and Figures), Table 203.20, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
d17/tables/dt17_203.20.asp; “2017 Title II Reports, National Teacher Education Data,” Academic
Year 2015-16 Data, accessed November 14, 2018, https://title2.ed.gov/Public/Home.aspx.
3 Donald Boyd et al., “The Draw of Home: How Teachers’ Preferences for Proximity Disadvantage
Urban Schools,” Journal of Policy Analysis and Management 24, 1 (2005): 113-32.
4 James Cowan et al., “Missing Elements in the Discussion of Teacher Shortages,” Educational
Researcher 45, 8 (2016): 460-2.
5 Thomas Gais et al., The State of the New York Teacher Workforce (Albany: Rockefeller Institute of
Government, March 2018), https://rockinst.org/issue-area/state-new-york-teacher-workforce/;
Thomas Gais et al., Phase One Analysis of the Teacher Workforce in South Dakota (Albany:
Rockefeller Institute of Government, October 2017), https://rockinst.org/issue-area/phase-one-
analysis-teacher-workforce-south-dakota/.
6 This student-to-teacher ratio includes guidance counselors and librarians.
7 Digest of Education Statistics (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for
Education Statistics, 2017 Tables and Figures), Table 203.20, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/
d17/tables/dt17_203.20.asp.
8 “Virginia Cohort Reports,” Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), 2018, http://www.doe.
virginia.gov/statistics_reports/graduation_completion/cohort_reports/index.shtml.
9 Digest of Education Statistics, Table 203.20.
10 “Intercensal Estimates for Virginia, Counties, and Cities: 2010-2017,” University of Virginia Weldon
Cooper Center for Public Service, Demographics Research Group, accessed November 14, 2018,
https://demographics.coopercenter.org/virginia-population-estimates.
11 Virginia Department of Education (VDOE). (2007-2018). Critical Teaching Shortage Areas.
12 Preliminary Report from the Advisory Committee on Teacher Shortages (Richmond: Virginia
Department of Education (VDOE), October 2017), https://www.education.virginia.gov/media/
governorvirginiagov/secretary-of-education/pdf/final-acts-report.pdf.
13 Public School Teacher File, 2012, from the Schools and Staffing Survey, NCES.
14 Desiree Carver-Thomas and Linda Darling Hammond, Teacher Turnover: Why It Matters
and What We Can Do About It (Palo Alto: Learning Policy Institute, August 2017), https://
learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/Teacher_Turnover_REPORT.pdf.
15 Richard Ingersoll and David Perda, “Is the Supply of Mathematics and Science Teachers
Sufficient?,” American Educational Research Journal 43, 3 (2010): 563-94.
16 Funding Virginia’s Schools in a Global Economy and a Digital World (Richmond: Senate Finance
Committee, November 18, 2011), http://sfc.virginia.gov/pdf/retreat/2011%20Retreat/Presentation_
Final%20PDF%20for%20Website/6.%20Public%20Ed%202011%20FINAL.pdf.
17 Superintendent’s Annual Reports, 2009-2017.
18 Kent C. Dickey, “Overview of Standards of Quality Funding Process,” Presentation to the Standing
Committee of the Standards of Quality, April 29, 2009, http://www.doe.virginia.gov/boe/quality/
soq_funding.ppt.
19 Ibid.
20 “2017 Title II Reports, National Teacher Education Data.”
21 Data to calculate percentage from Digest of Education Statistics, 2017 Tables and Figures, Table
209.05, https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_209.05.asp?current=yes. The