ERIC Number: ED676005
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Aug
Pages: 12
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Available Date: 0000-00-00
Post-Pandemic Onset Public School Counselor Retention and Mobility in Virginia. COVID-19 Impacts Research Brief Series No. 7
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had significant impacts on public education worldwide as well as in Virginia. In the years since the pandemic's onset, students' test-based performance dropped dramatically and has not yet fully bounced back, chronic absenteeism increased, mental health worsened, and incidences of student misbehavior rose. School counselors, through the services they provide to students, are playing a vital role in helping students recover from and cope with the changes brought on by the pandemic. Counselors, however, experienced the same pandemic which altered the demands of their job and the resources they had available to them to meet those demands. In this brief, we examined how the pandemic may have altered the composition of Virginia's public school counselor workforce and their retention and mobility patterns. Since SY 2011-12, the number of school counselors increased 23% with the counselor workforce becoming more non-White and more likely to hold an administrative rather than teaching license. Over the first two years of the pandemic, the retention rate decreased and the departure rate increased. The patterns of these changes were similar to the changes among teachers over the same period but were less pronounced. The direction and magnitude of these changes differed with counselor gender, race/ethnicity, license type, and years of experience.
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: University of Virginia, EdPolicyWorks (EPW); Virginia Department of Education (VDOE)
Identifiers - Location: Virginia
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: R305S210009
Department of Education Funded: Yes

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