Notable numbers: Traffic deaths, gun deaths and disappearing teachers

16 The percentage less that tuition at UNC costs than sending an infant to a day care center for 8 hours a day in North Carolina

14.8 The percentage of the state’s 96,081 teachers who left their positions in the 2014-15 school year

14.1 The percentage who left the previous year

13.4 The percentage of Wake County teachers who left in the 2014-15 school year

20.4 The percentage of Durham teachers who left

2,100 The number of North Carolina teachers who left in 2012-13 for personal reasons, including dissatisfaction with teaching

5,680 The number who left for those reasons last year

21 The percentage of North Carolina’s beginning teachers who left last year

7 The percentage of all teacher departures last year that were the result of firing, resignation in lieu of firing or contracts that weren’t renewed

2.5 The times higher traffic fatality death rates were for people at the bottom of the education spectrum than than those at the top in 1995

4.3 The times higher that rate was in 2010

82 The number of preschoolers shot dead in the United States in 2013

27 The number of police officers shot dead in the line of duty the same year

60 The percentage of gun deaths that are suicides

11 The percentage of voters who turned out for Raleigh city elections Tuesday

This story was originally published October 9, 2015 at 5:18 PM with the headline "Notable numbers: Traffic deaths, gun deaths and disappearing teachers."