The Heldrich Center for Workforce Development has announced the release of a new Multi-State Teacher Workforce Report, designed to provide a comprehensive, data-driven view of the educator pipeline from preparation and certification to placement, retention, and mobility. This report was developed in partnership with the Rhode Island Longitudinal Data System. By addressing a longstanding challenge for states of aligning and standardizing definitions of teacher retention and mobility, this project demonstrates how cross-state collaboration can produce more comparable, policy-relevant workforce insights.
This dashboard offers policymakers, educator preparation leaders, and workforce planners actionable insights to strengthen teacher supply, identify shortages by subject and region, and support more equitable staffing decisions. This project was developed with the goal of being replicable for other states — documenting our methodology and technical approach, and making the project code public for others to test and use.
Explore the interactive dashboard to examine trends in teacher entry, movement, and retention, and see how integrated data can inform smarter teacher workforce strategies.
About NJSDS
The New Jersey Statewide Data System (NJSDS) is the State of New Jersey’s centralized longitudinal data system for public administrative data. Through coordination with partnering state agencies, NJSDS is a large statewide interagency and intergovernmental platform where data from participating agencies are securely stored to expand access and analysis to improve governance efforts, policymaking, and performance of public initiatives.
NJSDS aims to help the public and stakeholders make data-informed decisions to improve public policies and practices for New Jersey residents. This includes facilitating longitudinal and linked-data research, providing statistical data, and publishing reports on the NJSDS website. NJSDS is a collaboration between four New Jersey state agencies, each sharing individual-level data. The system is owned by the State of New Jersey and operated by the John J. Heldrich Center for Workforce Development at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.