DESCRIPTORS *Educational Policy; Elementary Secondary Education;

This paper examines the issues underlying teacher supply and demand as they apply to Connecticut public schools. The first section, "Refining the Model for Estimating State-Level Public School Educator Demand, " looks at: the demand model; enrollment projections; teacher attrition; unfilled positions; migration between assignment areas and districts; differences in the proportion of part-time to full-time educators in the newly hired and continuing educator pools across assignment areas; state-level hiring responsiveness to changes in elementary, middle, and high school enrollments; district and state policy initiatives; and the demand c projections for educators through 2003. Section 2, "Estimating Educator Supply: Confronting an Imperfect Science, " discusses: sources of Connecticut's new hires: 1993-98; 1998 newly hired educator's survey: what was learned about new hires ' search for public school positions; first certificates awarded annually: Connecticut's new educator supply source; th