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[quote=Anonymous]I’d love to see BASIS teacher retention compared to other more similar DCPS schools instead of DC wide but I don’t think retention data is published for individual DC schools.  I do know that teacher retention at high performing and/or application schools is much much higher than BASIS.  What BASIS does much better than DCPS though is filling mid-year vacancies quickly and having a real plan for long-term subbing for things like Maternity leave.  They have to since BASIS doesn’t use an external sub pool.  I am shocked that DCPS doesn’t have a mechanism to  hire content expert long term subs.  My experience is that many leaves of absence (like maternity leave) are left just to the regular sub pool (and subs get paid crap with no benefits).  Since DCPS has better benefits for leave than BASIS more teachers use leave in DCPS and getting stuck with essentially “babysitting” subs for 8-16 weeks of long-term absences can feel as bad as the school having high teacher turnover.[/quote]

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