Administrators in Crisis: Why Passionate Education Leaders Are Fleeing and How to Get Them to Stay

Jeannine Proctor
3 min readAug 8, 2023
Muhammad Usman, 2023

While much public discourse has centered on the teacher shortage crisis, a troubling exodus of principals and other school administrators is also underway. According to a McKinsey study, nearly one-third of education leaders surveyed are planning to leave their roles — a rate on par with classroom teachers. This mass…

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