Post-Attack Columbine Sees 60% Staff Turnover
From Times Wire Reports
About 60% of the staff at Columbine High have left since the school became the site of the one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings in 1999.
Only 58 of the 143 faculty members and staffers from 1999 are still at the Jefferson County school. For the district as a whole, teacher turnover was only 11% annually from 1999 to 2001.
Columbine seniors Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold stormed the school, killing 13 people before committing suicide; 23 others were wounded.
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