"Leading a school district isn't for the faint of heart," Superintendent Dave Marken said in his resignation letter to the Dublin school board on Tuesday. (Image courtesy of Dublin Unified School District/YouTube)

The superintendent of the Dublin Unified School District shocked the community when he resigned abruptly Tuesday, a spokeswoman for the district confirmed.

Dave Marken, who worked for the district for 15 years, held many different positions and came out of retirement to “fix some problems, to help bring people together,” he wrote in his letter of resignation.

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Keith Burbank is currently a fulltime reporter covering Alameda County and Oakland news for Bay City News. He has also worked on the Data Points project for Local News Matters, finding trends and stories about the region through data. In 2019, he was a California Fellow at the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, producing a series about homeless deaths in Santa Clara County. He worked as a swing shift editor for the newswire for several years as well. Outside of journalism, Keith enjoys computer programming, math, economics and music.