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About one in 10 special education teachers resigned between 2021 and 2025: Desmond Lee

The average resignation rate of mainstream educators was around one in 50 teachers.

Despite the high attrition rate in special education (SPED) schools, the SPED teacher workforce grew from about 1,600 in 2021 to 1,900 in 2025.

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