Alabama’s pace of teacher retirements has slowed statewide, according to numbers compiled from the 2022-23 school year.
According to the Teachers Retirement System, 2,810 public education employees retired at some point during the 2022-23 school year, down from 3,337 the year before. A decade-old record was broken during the 2020-21 school year when 3,515 employees left local school systems.



