American Education Finance Association

Recruitment, selection and retention of highly qualified teachers continues to be a challenge for urban school districts. Central to the success of recruiting is a well articulated and executed teacher induction process. This paper reports first results of a Fall, 2006 survey of Pennsylvania school superintendents, school board presidents, and local union presidents of teacher recruitment practices, and compares these results to a 1997 survey of the same universe of stakeholders in the teacher recruitment process. Knowledge and opinions about how the interview list is generated, the pool narrowed, and final selection determined are measured for each group of stakeholders. Reasons for requesting waivers are elicited, as are attitudes towards working conditions