This is a foolish way to save money. School districts should encourage experienced teachers to stay. At the same time, districts short-changed experienced teachers by holding the lid on their pay raises. Districts have less trouble attracting new teachers, but most teachers flee the classroom within the first five years of their teaching career. It's worth a try.
Many school districts offer signing bonuses to new teachers.
The Texas Education Code requires school districts to provide mentors to new teachers, but most mentor programs are a joke. Frequently, the new teacher does not even know that he or she has a mentor and many times the mentor learns that he or she has been given that task only by reading it on a faculty assignment sheet. Some researchers in the Region III Education Service Center studied the results of mentor programs on teacher retention. The results are striking, but hardly surprising. If we provide real help to young teachers, we can stanch the stream of refugees from teaching that is draining our profession of young talent.