An assessment by the Penn State Center for Education Evaluation & Policy Analysis found that 7.7% of Pennsylvania teachers, or a total of 9,587, left their positions between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years.
That number has slowly risen over the past two years — reaching 5.4% in 2020-21 and 6.2% in 2021-22 — and exceeds the 7.5% attrition rate recorded in 2014-15. This makes it the largest number of teachers leaving on record.
