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Strong & Diverse Educator Pipeline
The State of Our Educator Pipeline 2023
The report The State of Our Educator Pipeline 2023: Strengths, Opportunities, and the Early Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic examines one of the most significant challenges facing Illinois public schools: ensuring we recruit and retain well-prepared and diverse teachers and leaders to guide students in every school.
A follow-up to the 2022 report The State We’re In, this report finds signs of stability and even improvement to Illinois’ educator pipeline during the exceptionally challenging COVID-19 pandemic period. The report also outlines where there is work ahead to ensure there are high-quality, diverse educators in every Illinois classroom and underscores the equity implications at the heart of this issue.
Published October 2023
The State of Our Educator Pipeline 2023 Data Dashboard
A supplement to the report, users can view metrics from the report at the district level and filter districts by county, legislative district, funding tier, student demographics, and more.
