SUSD Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez speaks at a community event in June 2023. Stockton Unified Superintendent Michelle Rodriguez speaks at a community event in June 2023. A new study shows women now hold one-third of superintendent jobs nationwide, with the highest percentages in the Northeast and the lowest in the Southeast. (Harika Maddala/Bay City News/Catchlight Local)

This year, women hold one-third of the school superintendent’s jobs in the U.S., according to a study released by the ILO Group’s Superintendent’s Research Project this week.

Half of all superintendents appointed to the top job in the largest 100 school districts were women, according to the report. Despite that, at the current pace of change, it will take almost 30 years before there are as many women serving as superintendents as men, according to the study.

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