Education
La Crosse School Board headed to February primary a year after not getting enough candidates for spring election
The School District of La Crosse has enough candidates running for school board this year, it’ll need a primary to reduce the field.
The district said seven candidates qualified to run for three seats that will be on the spring ballot.
A primary occurs for the local school board when more than six people are running, which means just one candidate will be eliminated in the primary, when voting ends Feb. 18.
The candidates on the primary ballot are:
- Jeff Jackson
- Adam Hoffer
- Sam Morris
- Molly Fuchs
- Joy Buchman
- Kevin Hundt
- Merideth Garcia (incumbent).
Two incumbents — school board president Juan Jimenez and Katie Berkedal — did not seek reelection, meaning there are two open seats.
In the 2024 spring election, only two candidates, Tim Alberts and Adam Manka, officially filed for the three open seats. That prompted multiple people to run write-in campaigns. Jim Bagniewski won of those candidates.
La Crosse’s board has nine members, who all serve three-year terms, so there are three seats up for election every spring.
