Don Kirkegaard has announced that he will leave his post this summer as South Dakota’s education secretary after only six months on the job.
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He’s moving on to become the schools superintendent for the West Bend district in Wisconsin.
Previously, he served as the superintendent of the Meade district in South Dakota.