The school districts are special-purpose districts which operate the local public educational institutions. A school district covers one or more towns with its own corporate powers. These are public in nature. A school district has its own legislative body; which is called as school board, school committee or board of trustees. This is of which the members are elected by the people or appointed by other government officials. The body elects a superintendent to serve as the chief executive of the school district. The board sets the policies and the superintendent implements.
When it comes to the hiring of new teachers, studies show that urban school districts are losing to suburban school districts. Policies and practices in urban school districts often make it difficult to hire new teachers. When it comes to the point that new teachers are required to be hired, most of the applicants have accepted a teaching job in a suburban school system already. The new teachers that accept a teaching position in a suburban school district, at most times, become better teachers. A report had it that very few aspiring teachers wanted to teach in a high-poverty school. If there is a good policy on recruitment, urban schools will have four or five applicants for every available position.
Thus, it is said that better teachers produce better learning capabilities. Teachers with higher verbal ability, content knowledge and at least two years of teaching experience are more effective when it comes to teaching students. Those outstanding teachers are landing jobs in suburban school districts despite the enormous resources of the urban school districts.
There are many obstacles before an applicant can be accepted in an urban setting. This is the reason why teacher candidates have long been hired before an urban school district comes to the point of initially scrutinizing his application. Unless and until these unproductive hiring policies of urban school districts are changed, suburban school districts will most likely continue to dominate the recruitment of better and newer teachers.