The increase in principal departures comes amid nationwide teacher shortages, with many districts struggling to fill jobs and keep educators from leaving them.
A recent study from the same Penn State institute found that the state’s teachers are also leaving at a record pace.
Principals affect not just teacher turnover, but also school climate and student achievement, he noted.The high rate of principal attrition doesn’t surprise Robin Cooper, president of the Commonwealth Association of School Administrators , the Philadelphia School District administrators’ union. Leading students through a pandemic was difficult work, and the aftereffects will linger for years.
The departure of Black principals is worrisome, said Fuller. In Philadelphia, there are already fewer Black teachers than there were 20 years ago, even though the overall numbers of teachers remains the same, according to a 2002 report by Research for Action, a Philadelphia-based education research group that has been tracking teacher diversity in the state.
Attrition rates were also highest among principals in the poorest schools systems; 14.2%, compared to 12.7% for principals in the wealthiest districts. According to the Pennsylvania Department of Education, more than half of the principals who left between 2022 and 2023 took jobs elsewhere in Pennsylvania traditional public and charter schools. Many of those who stayed in Pennsylvania landed in other, non-principalship or assistant superintendent leadership roles.
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