Amid an ongoing investigation into a former Sun Prairie West High School staffer, the Sun Prairie School District has named the school’s second acting principal of the just-started academic year.
Recently retired Middleton High School Principal Peg Shoemaker will take over for West’s Associate Principal Ed Ford, according to a Tuesday news release from district leaders. Ford had just been named acting principal on Sept. 4 to replace Jennifer Ploeger.
Ploeger, who had been principal since 2022, was placed on paid leave amid an investigation into former Dean of Students Robert Gilkey-Meisegeier.
Gilkey-Meisegeier, 30, has been charged in state court with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child and 13 counts of possession of child pornography, and indicted in federal court for attempting to produce and possessing child pornography. Victims in the cases include West students, according to authorities.