Missouri Education Commissioner Karla Eslinger will retire June 1 ^55.2%

STLPR - By Will Bauer - 5/12/2026, 9:10 PM

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Missouri's commissioner of education, who has led the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education since 2024, will retire at the start of next month. Karla Eslinger will stop down from the state's top job in K-12 education on June 1 after the Missouri State Board of Education accepted her retirement on Tuesday. "Serving as... more