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The purpose of this research is to examine whether the change tendencies of special education school principals differ in terms of demographic variables. The research was designed in descriptive design. The universe of the research consists of 1362 special education school principals in Turkey, and the sample consists of 137 special education school principals selected by random sampling method. In the study, data were collected with a personal information form and the Change Tendency Scale, which is a 5-point Likert-type scale, consisting of 41 items and four dimensions: entrepreneurship in change, belief in the benefit of change, resistance to change and maintaining the status quo. The obtained data were tested with Kruskal Wallis analysis using the SPSS 21 package program. The research results showed that the change trends of private education school managers are positive; that the change trends are not different by the educational institution previously served, the state of education and the number of service-in-training received; however, the status protection sub-dimensions are different by the professional limitation, and the entrepreneurship sub-dimensions are different by the management limitation. Following the results obtained, the research ended with suggestions for increasing the trend of change of private education school directors.