In general, the less academically able candidates, as measured by SAT and ACT scores, were the ones still teaching after three years. Chase's press statement on Quality Counts does not mention the Loch Ness Monster. But it does have problems of distribution in the supply of teachers. Too few teachers are available in subjects such as special education, bilingual education, mathematics, and science. And too few people are willing to work in schools that are underfunded or in rundown or isolated areas.
Studies suggest that new teachers, especially, prefer to work near where they grew up.
Ramon Cortines, the interim superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District, has revived a plan to split the huge district into 11 sub-districts. Cortines hopes his effort will forestall various secession initiatives. In Nevada, Assemblywoman Sandra Tiffany filed a petition aimed at allowing legislators or voters to break up the Clark County School District, which is the nation's eight largest. Rep. Tiffany has until November to gather 44,009 signatures. Detroit has one of the highest ratios of non-teaching education employees in the country.