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Table 2.

The Probability a Teacher Was Laid Off by School Type and Characteristics in 2009 and 2010

	2009				2010
	Panel A: School Type
	Pre-K	Elem	Middle	High	Pre-K	Elem	Middle	High
	0.079	0.056	0.068	0.096	0.028	0.028	0.053	0.074
	Panel B: Quartiles of School Characteristics
	Bottom	2nd	3rd	Top	Bottom	2nd	3rd	Top
State Performance Index	0.078	0.062	0.064	0.073	0.060	0.047	0.049	0.033
Average days absent	0.064	0.060	0.062	0.090	0.027	0.031	0.045	0.075
% African American students	0.074	0.051	0.063	0.089	0.030	0.035	0.046	0.070
% Hispanic students	0.077	0.069	0.067	0.064	0.033	0.052	0.057	0.039
% Limited English proficient	0.070	0.075	0.067	0.065	0.040	0.040	0.060	0.041
students
% Special education students	0.088	0.059	0.061	0.074	0.041	0.038	0.049	0.055
Average mathematics	0.084	0.058	0.042	0.057	0.052	0.044	0.026	0.016
achievement
Average reading achievement	0.089	0.048	0.051	0.053	0.054	0.040	0.025	0.020

	2009				2010
	Panel A: School Type
	Pre-K	Elem	Middle	High	Pre-K	Elem	Middle	High
	0.079	0.056	0.068	0.096	0.028	0.028	0.053	0.074
	Panel B: Quartiles of School Characteristics
	Bottom	2nd	3rd	Top	Bottom	2nd	3rd	Top
State Performance Index	0.078	0.062	0.064	0.073	0.060	0.047	0.049	0.033
Average days absent	0.064	0.060	0.062	0.090	0.027	0.031	0.045	0.075
% African American students	0.074	0.051	0.063	0.089	0.030	0.035	0.046	0.070
% Hispanic students	0.077	0.069	0.067	0.064	0.033	0.052	0.057	0.039
% Limited English proficient	0.070	0.075	0.067	0.065	0.040	0.040	0.060	0.041
students
% Special education students	0.088	0.059	0.061	0.074	0.041	0.038	0.049	0.055
Average mathematics	0.084	0.058	0.042	0.057	0.052	0.044	0.026	0.016
achievement
Average reading achievement	0.089	0.048	0.051	0.053	0.054	0.040	0.025	0.020

Notes: The State Performance Index rates schools based on three measures: percent of students at proficient or above on state exams, average student growth on state exams, and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status following federal guidelines. These analyses include 619 RIFed teachers in 2009 and 384 RIFed teachers in 2010 for whom data on all descriptive measures other than performance are available.

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