Appendix B

Excerpt from Seattle Public Schools Memo to UW CoE regarding Teacher Vacancies; Dated January 24, 2011

OVERALL STATE OF CURRENT TEACHER CORPS: DEMOGRAPHICS, ENDORSEMENTS & PROBATIONS Current teacher demographics, major endorsements and probations are shown in the following table.1

Teacher Demographics, Endorsements & Probations in Seattle Public Schools: 2010-11

South east Total Number Age Avg. Age Median Age Ethnicity % White % African American/Black % American Indian or Alaskan Native % Asian/Pacific Islander % Latino % Other % Unknown Endorsement23 Kindergarten Elementary Middle School High School Bilingual Elem. Bilingual Sec. Special EducationBehavior Disability, Self-Contained Special EducationEarly Childhood Special EducationGeneralist 584 45 44 66% 14% 1% 15% 3% 0% 1% 115 499 164 192 123 44 West Seatt le 452 45 45 80% 6% 1% 7% 4% 1% 1% 71 366 148 243 59 34 Cent ral 605 45 44 77% 8% 0% 10% 2% 1% 2% 70 591 249 334 32 62 North east 524 46 48 88% 2% 1% 6% 2% 0% 1% 96 521 190 267 49 24 North west 546 47 48 86% 3% 0% 6% 3% 1% 0% 83 511 261 295 38 30 Centr al Offic e 39 48 51 90% 8% 0% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0 7 22 0 1 0 Othe r 75 41 36 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 23 149 57 19 22 0 Tota l 2825 45 45 79% 7% 1% 9% 3% 1% 1% 458 2644 1091 1350 324 194

52 7 154

14 5 161

20 16 108

7 20 134

20 8 172

8 8 10

0 1 7

121 65 746

1 The data do not include other certificated staff who are not teachers. 2 Individual teachers may hold multiple endorsements. 3 Only endorsement categories with high numbers across the district, as well as bilingual and special education
endorsements, are shown in this table.

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Special EducationHearing Impaired Special EducationMentally Handicapped Special EducationSevere/Profound Special EducationAutism Special EducationVisually Impaired Vocational Ed Probations Total Current Probations 0 19 12 10 0 33 8 0 17 7 18 0 35 2 0 23 4 20 0 58 18 10 15 9 19 0 68 4 0 23 11 30 0 81 9 0 0 0 0 4 18 0 2 1 1 0 7 10 99 44 98 4 300 41

TEACHER VACANCIES In the 2009-10 school year, there were a total of 352 vacancies in Seattle Public Schools.4 Vacancies were concentrated in schools in the Southeast, West and Central regions of the district, with 69% of vacancies in these three regions. Vacancies rates by school performance level were proportionate to the numbers of schools in each level. For example, while Level 5 schools had the fewest vacancies, there are also the fewest number of schools in Level 5 overall.

Seattle Public Schools Vacancies by Region & Performance Level Sept. 2009 Aug. 2010
Total Vacancies Region Southeast West Seattle Central Northeast Northwest Other Performance Level 1 2 3 4 5 Level Not Assigned 4 85 76 81 43 55 12 % of Total Vacancies 24% 22% 23% 12% 16% 3%

66 60 100 69 26 31

19% 17% 28% 20% 7% 9%

The 352 positions included 1.0 FTE as well as partial FTE positions; there were not 352 total FTE vacancies.

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Total 352 100%

Teacher vacancies in 2009-10 were highest for Elementary (115) and Special Education teachers (73). Vacancies for the 2009-10 school year by job class are shown in the following table. In middle schools, the highest numbers of vacancies were for Math and Social Studies/Language Arts teachers. In high schools, the highest numbers of vacancies were for Math and Science teachers.

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Job Class Kindergarten Total Elementary Primary Intermediate PE All Other Elementary Total Middle School Math LA/Social Studies All Other Middle School Total High School Math Science All Other High School Total Bilingual Elementary Bilingual Secondary Bilingual All Other Bilingual Total Special Education Special Education-Generalist Special Education-Behavior Disability, SelfContained Special Education-Mentally Handicapped Special Education-Early Childhood All Other Special Education Other

# of Vacancies 21 115 43 11 11 50 64 13 10 41 55 13 9 33 18 9 6 3 73 43 12 6 5 7 6