Having support at school is vital to every student’s health, education, and security; this support includes full time, or FTE, teachers, psychologists, social workers, nurses, security guards, and sworn law enforcement officers. This visualization shows the numbers of FTE employees hired by public schools in each state. Because not every school district has the same budget and resources, we also show the number of employed teachers, nurses, and counselors by district to compare the number of support systems the students have in each school district in every state. It also splits the teacher category into more subcategories in order to further understand the qualifications and experience teachers have.
Note: Schools that did not provide data for these variables had their cell marked with a -9. If there was an EdFacts missing data it was marked with a -8. If there was a system error it was marked with a -7, and if the cell value was too small it was marked with a -2. This impacts the visualization, as the visualization is the sum across all observations that use that variable. However, after viewing the dataset, we have made the educated assumption that schools that did not provide data for one of these variables, also did not provide data for the others, so the proportions should not be significantly different. This is still important to note, as we cannot guarantee this.
