During the first 100 days of my administration, I established the Educator Retention Task Force through Executive Order 2023-07 to hear directly from educators about the retention crisis facing the profession and to create recommendations to improve educator retention.

Over the past several months, the members of the Task Force engaged nearly 10,000 current and former educators across the state to understand their needs and concerns; studied promising practices from Arizona-based programs and those in other states; and developed thoughtful recommendations that will support educators and encourage increased retention. The Task Force also commissioned this report that provides important research and analyses that can inform future conversations about improving educator retention.

I am grateful for the time the Task Force members invested in this work and for their willingness to be open about their experiences and challenges.

I would also like to thank the Morrison Institute for Public Policy for conducting the 2023 Educator Working Conditions Study in partnership with the Task Force. Additionally, I am grateful to The Hunt Institute for facilitating the process to create the Task Force’s recommendations and for their work in drafting this report. My gratitude also goes to the partners who helped distribute the working conditionssurvey across the state and to the thousands of educators and former educators who responded. I am thankful for their engagement and their voices which were essential in informing this report and the Task Force’s recommendations.

Read more in the document linked below.