Roughly 60 percent of the new hires had emergency teaching licenses. Secondary mathematics teachers without college major or minor in math. Urban 8th graders are twice as likely to attend schools where at least one teacher leaves before the end of the year. Teachers in high-poverty secondary schools, whether urban or rural, are the least prepared and the most likely to lack even a minor in the subjects they teach. Such schools also tend to have a larger share of new, inexperienced teachers.
Urban children are far more likely to attend high-poverty schools.
Katrina Hill teaches 2nd grade at Sylmar Elementary School in Los Angeles while she works on obtaining her teaching credential.