Supply and Demand for Teachers in Tennessee

Author: Donald J. Bruce, William F. Fox, Brian Douglas, Melissa O. Reynolds, Zhou Yang

Publication Date: December 1, 2009

This report provides estimates of teacher supply and demand for every Local Education Agency (LEA) in Tennessee for each school year from 2009‐2010 through 2013‐2014. The estimates were prepared to assist in local and state planning as the required hiring and development of new teachers is identified. The report includes a brief description of the methodologies that were used to estimate teacher supply, demand, and the gap between the two. The gap represents the number of teachersthat must be hired to meet the increased demand as the number of students grows and to also meet the vacancies that arise as teachers leave the Tennessee education workforce. The gap should be interpreted as the number of new teachers that must be hired per year in each LEA, and the state total, if we are to continue meeting Tennesseans’ demands for education and teachers. The report begins with a discussion of the methodology, with separate sections describing the demand for teachers and the supply of teachers. The quantitative estimates of teacher supply, demand, and the gap are aggregated to the state level and reported in the section following the methodology. Estimates for teacher supply and demand and the gap for each LEA are provided in the Appendix.

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