The Governor champions education as a profession and seeks opportunities to champion educator voice and agency in conversations about education. Consequently, the Governor’s Educator Retention Task Force (the Task Force) was convened by Executive Order to address educator retention challenges in the state of Arizona. Comprised of 19 diverse education leaders and stakeholders, the Task Force includes a cross section of educators, administrators, support professionals, school board members, and nonprofit leaders. The members of the Task Force can be found in Appendix A.

To develop the recommendation included in this report, members of the Task Force convened in four working groups focused on Pay and Compensation, Working Conditions, Retention Innovations, and Teacher Preparation and Certification to examine the current landscape in Arizona and evidence-based practices to retain educators. In addition to meeting within their working groups, the Task Force met at large to discuss the qualitative and quantitative findings of the 2023 Educator Working Conditions Study and use the full spectrum of information gathered across their meetings to produce the following recommendations to support educator retention across Arizona.

Read more in the document linked below.