FREEMAN PUBLIC SEEKING 7-12 PRINCIPAL
Katie Junke taking over for Voss as elementary principal after this year
With Freeman Elementary Principal Shane Voss retiring at the end of the 2023-24 school year and 7-12 Principal Katie Junke set to move to the other side of the building and take his place, the Freeman Public School District is currently seeking a new secondary principal.
An advertisement for the position is running in both this week’s Courier and Area Wide Connection. The starting salary ranges from $75,000 to $85,000 plus full benefits based on experience. Applications are available under the “employment” tab at freeman.12.sd.us.
Juhnke, who had previously been a sixth-grade science teacher at Freeman Elementary before taking a job at Parker, has been Freeman Public’s 7-12 principal since 2021.
Her position isn’t the only one the district is looking to fill. Freeman Public is also advertising for a custodian following the resignation of Gregg Uecker and a full-time administrative assistant — a new position that will work in the front office in response to enrollment growth in the district.
Freeman Superintendent Jake Tietje said the district has seen an enrolment growth of 118.47 students since 2016 and the new position will be charged with overseeing payroll and food services. That person will join a front office staff that also includes administrative assistant April Gossen and business manager Angele Letcher, who was hired as the permanent replacement for Debbie Goossen last November.
Letcher previously worked in the business office at Freeman Regional Health Services.
Freeman Public is also advertising for a head track coach and a head volleyball coach, jobs that were most recently held by Amy Sorensen and Jessie Ahlers, respectively.
Sorensen is staying on as an assistant coach and Ahlers, who also worked in special education in the district, resigned from her duties at Freeman Public effective at the end of the first semester.
All job descriptions are printed in the employment ads on page 6B of this week’s Courier, as well as in the Area Wide Connection.
