News stories from the past year highlight an "exodus of teachers" from Providence schools following the state takeover in 2019 and the two subsequent years of pandemic schooling. At the national level, though, reports of teachers fleeing the profession are increasingly being replaced by a more complex story, where teachers are feeling burned out by the shifting demands of the work across this period but not yet leaving the classroom at particularly high rates. The authors aim to bring a similar nuance to teacher staffing in Providence. Providence opened the 2021-22 school year with a larger than usual number of vacant classrooms. Like teachers across the country, teachers in Providence are facing substantial burdens produced by the pandemic and are teaching in a difficult political environment. In this brief, the authors investigate patterns of teacher retention in the district before and during the pandemic and look at how teacher turnover contributes to classroom staffing shortages the district faces. They build on past analyses of the teacher workforce in Providence, which highlighted the challenges of staffing all schools and the role that more robust teacher recruitment could play in ensuring that all classrooms have effective teachers at the start of the school year.