{"id":779,"date":"2012-03-06T15:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-06T19:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-04-25T16:55:35","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T20:55:35","slug":"school-principal-turnover-bodes-ill-for-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/school-principal-turnover-bodes-ill-for-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"School Principal Turnover Bodes Ill for Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RAND Corp. released a study last month looking at the effect principal turnover rates have on school performance.\u00a0 About 20% of principals new to a school leave within two years, \u201cleaving behind a school that generally continues on a downward academic slide after their departure.\u201d\u00a0 The report was prepared for New Leaders, a nonprofit group based in New York City that recruits and trains principals for urban districts.<\/p>\n<p>RAND Education gathered data from four sources: a web survey of 65 principals in 2008, 20 case studies of schools led by first-year principals, district-level data on placements for 519 principals, and student achievement test scores.\u00a0 \u201cFirst-year principals\u201d includes not just administrators new to the job, but also principals who had administrator experience but were new at a particular school.\u00a0 The data came from several public school districts, including Memphis, Chicago, New York City, DC, Baltimore and Oakland Unified.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that new principals were more likely to leave their job if test scores dipped during their first year of leadership.\u00a0 Furthermore, after the principal left, the school tended to continue a downward slope in test scores the following year under another new principal.\u00a0 Richard Flanary of the National Association of Secondary School Principals emphasizes these findings are unsurprising: \u201cIt takes at least three years for a principal to really get the lay of 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