Teacher transfers: equalizing deficits across schools
Abstract
The Right to Free and Compulsory Education Act (2009) (RTE) of the Government of India prescribes student-teacher ratios for state-run schools. One method advocated by the Act to achieve its goals is the redeployment of teachers from surplus to deficit (in teacher strength) schools. We consider a model where teachers can either remain in their initially assigned schools or be transferred to a deficit school in their acceptable set. The planner's objective is specified in terms of the post-transfer deficit vector that can be achieved. We show that there exists a transfer whose post-transfer deficit vector Lorenz dominates all achievable post-transfer deficit vectors. We provide a two-stage algorithm to derive the Lorenz-dominant post-transfer deficit vector, and show that this algorithm is strategy-proof for teachers.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2510.18708,
title = {Teacher transfers: equalizing deficits across schools},
author = {Debasis Mishra and Soumendu Sarkar and Arunava Sen and Jay Sethuraman and Sonal Yadav},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.18708},
year = {2025}
}