YANKTON, S.D. (WNAX) — As the school year wraps up, students aren’t the only ones looking to move on.
Tom Oster with Dakota Educational Consultants says they are seeing lots of openings for superintendents. He said the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, and parents’ reaction to it, may have played a role.
“They kind of felt, I think, like they couldn’t win,” Oster said. “If they recommended masks there were certain people who were upset; if they didn’t recommend masks there were different people upset. It was just a hard situation for everybody.”
Oster is a former South Dakota education secretary and was a superintendent himself. He said the job is seeing its highest turnover rate since the 2008 financial crisis.
“We’ve seen several superintendents retiring younger, in their fifties, which isn’t necessarily the norm,” Oster said.
(Jerry Oster, WNAX, contributed to this report.)
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