Schopp to retire from role as Education Secretary

...""And earlier this year, emails surfaced that showed Schopp's education department ignored signs of trouble years earlier, in 2011 when an employee flagged what appeared to be a "co-mingling of data" for Gear Up's grants.

Schopp at the time thought one former Department of Education employee was disgruntled after she was laid off and told another the situation was being properly handled.

After the 2015 murder-suicide that generated deeper investigations into the financial scheme, Schopp said she carried guilt about notifying the cooperative the day before the Westerhuis deaths that the state planned to pull a multi-million dollar grant."

[link:http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/13/schopp-retire-early-role-education-secretary/762340001/|

Another South Dakota west river Republican escapes culpability.