In this time of FCAT tests, shrinking budgets, and failing schools, every day counts in Florida’s public schools. But on any given day in Pinellas and Hillsborough County roughly 1000 fulltime teachers are missing from the classroom.
Our Target Eight investigation discovered that so far this year classroom substitutes have already filled in for teachers more than 80,000 times this school year in Hillsborough and Pinellas Counties.
The absences data pertains to a five-month period between 08/21/07 to 01/16/08 for Pinellas County and a six-month period from 08/21/07 to 02/12/08 for Hillsborough County.
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Teacher Absences
News Channel 8 reporter Mark Douglas requested data from the Hillsborough and Pinellas County School boards on teacher absenses. The data is broken down by level (elementary/middle/high) and ranked by absenteeism rate of teachers expressed in days and fractions of day.
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Peak Days For Substitutes
Hillsborough
| Date | Number of Substitutes | Day of Week |
| 11/7/2007 | 853 | Wednesday |
| 12/7/2007 | 763 | Friday |
| 11/2/2007 | 748 | Friday |
| 12/14/2007 | 736 | Friday |
| 11/9/2007 | 731 | Friday |
| 10/12/2007 | 727 | Friday |
| 10/26/2007 | 723 | Friday |
| 11/30/2007 | 720 | Friday |
| 11/20/2007 | 714 | Tuesday |
| 11/16/2007 | 713 | Friday |
| 09/28/2007 | 708 | Friday |
| 10/5/2007 | 700 | Friday |
Pinellas
| 11/02/2007 | 686 | Friday |
| 11/09/2007 | 633 | Friday |
| 10/22/2007 | 629 | Thursday |
| 10/12/2007 | 624 | Friday |
| 10/26/2007 | 619 | Friday |
| 10/18/2007 | 612 | Thursday |
| 09/28/2007 | 597 | Friday |
| 10/05/2007 | 566 | Friday |
| 11/16/2007 | 557 | Friday |
| 11/30/2007 | 540 | Friday |
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