Oregon’s Educator Data Dashboard is a state-built, interactive view of the teacher pipeline—from licensure recommendations to first hire and early retention—designed to help leaders monitor workforce supply and diversity. It covers cohorts of educators recommended for Oregon licensure since 2010 and tracks who is hired into Oregon public schools and who remains in the classroom.
The dashboard integrates two statewide administrative files: Teacher Standards and Practices Commission (TSPC) Program Completion Reports and Oregon Department of Education (ODE) Staff Position records. This linkage allows users to see, for example, how long it takes recommended candidates to be hired, and how retention varies by race/ethnicity or gender.
Time windows are explicit. Licensure data run from 2010–2011 through 2021–2022; district hiring through 2022–2023; and retention (based on consecutive years with an allowed one-year gap) is available through the 2019–2020 cohort window. These constraints matter when interpreting trend lines, especially for the pandemic era.
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What the Dashboard Covers
The dashboard presents a connected view of the early teacher career arc for individuals prepared by Oregon Educator Preparation Programs (EPPs). Users can explore aggregate counts and rates by year, license category, years-to-hire, and demographics. In practical terms, it moves beyond headcounts by showing the flow from preparation to employment and short-run retention in Oregon public K–12 schools.
Core Questions the Dashboard Can Answer
- How have EPP licensure recommendations changed since 2010?
- What share of recommended candidates are hired in Oregon public schools, and how quickly?
- How does early-career retention differ by gender and race/ethnicity?
These questions align the tool to policy decisions on recruitment, hiring practices, and supports for new teachers.
Data Sources and Linkage
The underlying data system—maintained by the Oregon Longitudinal Data Collaborative (OLDC)—joins person-level records using TSPC identifiers. Weekly updates from TSPC are linked to ODE’s Staff Position data to produce the Oregon Educator Public Employment (OEPE) file powering the dashboard. Consistent definitions (e.g., “recommended for a license,” “hired,” “retained”) ensure comparability across years.
The product is titled “Educator” dashboard, but in its current release it includes licensed K–12 teachers in public schools (including charter) rather than all educator roles; multiple-position staff are deduplicated to a single classroom-teacher record per year.
Recent Statewide Context from 2024 Equity Reporting
Although the dashboard itself focuses on the teacher pipeline, it sits within a broader statewide equity and workforce picture documented in Oregon’s 2024 Educator Equity Report:
Racially/ethnically diverse K–12 students (41.6%) outnumber diverse K–12 staff (20.4%) statewide; licensed teachers remain the largest but least diverse educator group.
The share of first-year teachers identifying as people of color more than doubled over the decade, reaching 20.6% in 2023—a signal of improvement at the entry point of the pipeline.
Oregon’s public system includes about 1,200 schools in 197 districts and 88,527 educators across roles—scale that frames hiring and retention needs.
Hispanic/Latino educators account for 11.8% of educators versus 25.8% of students—highlighting a critical underrepresentation target.