MacNeil, Angus J.2015-06-152015-06-15May 20132013-05http://hdl.handle.net/10657/938Nationally, teachers leave the profession at rates of up to and beyond 50% after five years of service. Archival data from 2000 and 2005 was analyzed for a major suburban school district in Texas that hired 1,310 first year teachers from three routes to certification including 46% who completed a traditional route and already held a standard teaching certificate, 36% who were participating in the district’s in-house Alternative/Accelerated Teacher Certification Program (ATCP), and 18% who were participating in external Alternative/Accelerated certification route programs. Although retention rates varied for each certification route after one to five years of service, teachers who were participating in the district ATCP had the highest overall retention rate at the five year mark with 60% of teachers remaining employed in the district. Teachers certified through the traditional route had a 54% retention rate at five years and teachers from external route programs stayed in the district at a 51% retention rate.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Teacher retentionAttritionAlternative certificationEducator preparation programsUniversityProfessional leadership2015-06-15Thesisborn digital