EDUCATION BRIEFS
News from Round Rock ISD
Students opting out of dyslexia courses ROUND ROCK ISD A significant number of Round Rock ISD students who qualify for dyslexia intervention are choosing not to receive services. That information came as part of a dyslexia update from the RRISD special education/504 department at a March 23 school board meeting. Even as the total number of students in the district who qualify for dyslexia services increased by 349 in January, new data from the district shows the number of students receiving services decreases at each grade level beginning with sixth grade. District Chief of Innovation Natalie Nichols said RRISD is collecting data to find out why students are declining dyslexia services. Kimberly Berry-Corie, director of dyslexia services at RRISD, said she does not yet have specific data, but she has noticed more students are choosing academic or elective courses over dyslexia intervention.
WHY THEY’RE LEAVING RRISD exit interview data presented March 23 shows there are a variety of reasons teachers are leaving the district:
31%
20%
16%
12%
12%
8%
1%
Accepted another job
Family reasons/ domestic
Retirement
Relocation
Personal reasons
Health reasons
Return to school
SOURCE: ROUND ROCK ISD/COMMUNITY IMPACT
District data explains reasons for teachers quitting ROUND ROCK ISD Though
uncertainties lifted. Data from an update presented March 23 shows 11.6% of teachers departed the district during the 2020-21 school year. That figure increased to 15.9% in 2021-22. Despite this increase, the turn- over rate remains lower than the regional rate of 18.8% for Central Texas educators. The 15.9% turnover rate represents a total of 548 teachers leaving the district, Curran said, compared to the 591 hired in 2022-23. Exit interview data compiled
in the 2022-23 school year shows 31% of teachers left the district for personal reasons, which Curran described as a broad category inclu- sive of many potential reasons, such as situations at home, lifestyle decisions and commuting time. The data also shows 20% of RRISD teachers left because they accepted another job, and 16% left for health-related reasons. As longer-tenured teachers retire or leave the district for other jobs, Curran said the proportion of new teachers within the district is also growing.
Round Rock ISD has experienced higher turnover during the 2021-22 school year than the 2020-21 year, the district is faring better that most others in the region with regard to teacher retention. This is according to data pre- sented at a March 23 board meeting. Eddie Curran, RRISD’s chief human resources officer, said this could be because teachers stayed at their jobs during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic while employment options were less certain then left the district as
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