09-05-2025
Explore the exit surveys left by departing MPS teachers and staff
To understand the staff retention problem at Milwaukee Public Schools, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel obtained the exit surveys filled out by staff who left the school district in recent years. The surveys describe the reasons staff left and what might have kept them in the district.
In the first public analysis of these surveys, the Journal Sentinel found about a third of respondents selected at least one factor directly related to their working environments, such as safety, working conditions and workloads.
The Journal Sentinel also found the district has failed to digitize its exit survey process and hasn't analyzed the results to inform retention strategies, despite years of conversations about doing so.
Below, you can search for exit surveys by staff in certain positions, staff in certain school board districts, and staff who selected certain reasons for their departures.
As an O'Brien Fellow in Public Service Journalism at Marquette University this school year, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Rory Linnane is examining vacancies at Milwaukee Public Schools, how they impact students, and how to solve them. Linnane is working with two Marquette students, Gabriel Sisarica and Chesnie Wardell. Marquette University and administrators of the fellowship play no role in the reporting, editing or presentation of this work.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Read exit surveys by teachers, staff leaving Milwaukee Public Schools
