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Why are more and more public school principals quitting their jobs?

by Stephanie Hughes

Feb 22, 2023

A Rand survey finds that 16% of public school principals retired or quit in the 2021-22 school year, more than double the rate from the year before.

School principals have increasingly been at the center of polarizing debates over issues like masking.

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