Job-Altering Problems

What work-related issues would cause superintendents to consider leaving their posts?

RAND posed that question in its American School District Panel Survey in spring 2022. The 211 superintendent respondents were able to select more than one factor on the list below. Of those selected as the respondents’ top choice, job-related stress ranked first.

Twenty-nine percent of the respondents indicated they would not consider leaving their superintendencies or said no particular problem makes them consider departing.

Source: RAND Corporation’s fifth American School District Panel Survey. Details at www.rand.org.