Monterey Peninsula Unified School District

Ord Terrace Elementary School

Teacher Vacancies, 2011–2012

This information about teacher vacancies is one small part of an annual report about our school. You can find the full report, which contains additional information about teachers, students, test scores, and resources, on our district’s Web site. This portion of the report is also one part of our response to the 2004 Williams legislation.

Read more about teacher vacancies.

Teacher Vacancies Occurring at the Beginning of the School Year

	2009–2010	2010–2011	2011–2012

Total number of classes at the start of the year	21	21	21
Number of classes which lacked a permanently assigned teacher within the first 20 days of school	0	1	0

Teacher Vacancies Occurring During the School Year

	2009–2010	2010–2011	2011–2012

Number of classes where the permanently assigned teacher left during the year	0	1	0
Number of those classes where you replaced the absent teacher with a single new teacher	0	1	0

Notes

This report was completed on Monday, January 30, 2012.

About Teacher Vacancies

The Williams legislation also asked districts to disclose how frequently full-time teachers were not permanently assigned to a classroom. There are two general circumstances that can lead to the unfortunate case of a classroom without a full-time, permanently assigned teacher. Within the first 20 days of the start of school, we can be surprised by too many students showing up for school, or too few teachers showing up to teach. After school starts, however, teachers can also be surprised by sudden changes: family emergencies, injuries, accidents, etc. When that occurs, it is our school’s and our district’s responsibility to fill that teacher’s vacancy with a qualified, full-time and permanently assigned replacement. For that reason, we report teacher vacancies in two parts: at the start of school, and after the start of school.