At TSL, we collect data on stories behind supt attrition, as publicly reported. So far, we’ve coded ~9k sources to inform this work.

It’s important to recognize that this is what the public knows about supt attrition--likely underestimating politicized attrition.

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Over the last decade, I noticed that research focused on superintendent attrition typically reduced attrition to a simplistic, binary measure: they stayed or left.

Yet, there is a human side of attrition & the nature of supt transition may impact district operations & student learning.

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The updated 2024-25 superintendent gender infographic w details on variation in gender gaps based on district characteristics, proportion of women serving in an interim status, & more here:

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While some states have made great gains in closing superintendent gender gaps, others have gone backwards.

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The superintendent gender gap is closing, albeit at a painfully slow rate -- at an average of 1.3 percentage points per year.

At this rate, the national superintendent gap may close by 2055 -- though some states may achieve equity much faster than others, as is shown in the next visualization...