Teacher tracking
The UNC system is working on a new database that officials hope will help them get a better grasp on the state's teaching shortage.
The data are culled from Department of Public Instruction files and uses characteristics such as race, sex, salary, SAT scores and other factors to determine whether a public school teacher is more or less likely to leave the profession.
There are 15 teaching education programs across the state university system, and officials say this data model program, once complete, might be a valuable tool for both the university and K-12 system as it looks for ways to train and retain teachers, particularly in rural and urban school districts.
(Jim Morrill of The Charlotte Observer contributed to this report. )
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