Building and Sustaining Talent: Creating Conditions in High-Poverty Schools That Support Effective Teaching and Learning

This report from The Education Trust recommends policy changes that districts and states can consider to address issues of school culture, and how these issues relate to rates of teacher dissatisfaction and turnover in schools that serve students from low-income and minority families. The authors highlight the quality of school leadership and staff cohesion and provide examples from five districts: Ascension Parish Public Schools (Louisiana), Boston Public Schools, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (North Carolina), Fresno Unified School District (California), and Sacramento City Unified School District (California).