Everyone has an opinion about why teachers leave D.C. schools – usually based on some weaponized anecdote or something “everyone knows.” Bellwether’s Kaitlin Pennington and Alexander Brand decided instead to take a look at actual exit interview data with DCPS teachers who left the field (and were not retiring or moving away, in other words, teachers the city could have retained). Here’s what they found.

And more here via Ahead of the Heard.