Employment trends of school personnel and staff 1980-1990

The American School Health Association's School Nurse Study Committee and the National Association of State School Nurse Consultants requested that a study be conducted to identify future employment trends for school nurses and how these trends compare with employment trends for other personnel employed in the school districts. School districts were asked for numbers of personnel employed in 1980, 1981, and 1982, and to project their intention to increase, decrease, or maintain the same number of personnel until 1990. The results of the study indicated that the profession showing the greatest decrease is the classroom teacher and that school nurses were not identified to have a greater decrease in employment than other professionals.