Under the best of conditions, attracting and keeping qualified teachers, administrators, and other educators is a problem for many school districts. On average, one-third of the superintendents who participated in this study say that the revenue caps have made it more difficult for their district to hire and retain top quality administrators, educational support staff, teachers, and guidance counselors/social workers/psychologists (see Table 10).

Table 10
Responses to the Question, "What has been the effect of the revenue controls on your district's capacity to hire and retain top quality administrators, educational support staff, teachers, and guidance counselors/social workers/psychologists?"

Staff development area	Negative	No difference	Positive
Hire Administrators	44.0%	55.0%	1.0%
Retain Administrators	41.8%	56.1%	2.1%
Hire Educational Support staff	28.3%	63.7%	.5%
Retain Educational Support Staff	22.2%	68.6%	1.2%
Hire Teachers	38.4%	50.0%	2.3%
Retain Teachers	26.0%	57.4%	2.9%
Hire Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists	33.5%	65.5%	1.0%
Retain Guidance Counselors, Social Workers, Psychologists	29.7%	69.0%	1.3%
Average	33.0%	60.7%	1.5%