Elections
La Crosse School Board sees incumbent, two newcomers win on Tuesday
The lone incumbent member of the La Crosse School Board won re-election on Tuesday along with two other candidates.
Merideth Garcia returns to the board for a second term along with first-time member Molly Fuchs and returning board member Jeff Jackson.
Jackson won a special election to the board for a one year term in 2023. Due to work commitments, he was unable to run again at that time.
They defeated the three other candidates on the ballot-Joy Buchman, Adam Hoffer, and Kevin Hundt.
In mid-March, Hundt announced he was dropping out of the race. With less than three weeks until the election, there wasn’t time to take his name off the ballot for April 1.
The three winning candidates all received endorsements earlier from the La Crosse County Democratic Party.
The new board will tackle several issues involving consolidating of schools, building additions, and construction of a new school at the Hogan Administrative Building site where the board has met for years.
walden
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 pm
All three winners were backed by the teachers union and the democratic party.
Little Johnny’s ACT score won’t be improving any time soon. At least he won’t have to worry about homework, because as one Central teacher said “homework benefits wealthy kids disproportionatley.”
Good luck with that.
Kevin
April 3, 2025 at 7:14 am
Public schools are a lost cause. The only solution, vote ‘no’ whenever you have a chance until they are starving for money. Treat them like a bonsai plant, just enough water to survive, prune them into the shape you need.
The problem that Lacrosse faces is we have two pseudo universities and a quasi-functional tech school. The student population is transient; however, they get to vote as if they are permanent residents. The educators and progressives have figured out how to mobilize that voting bloc, and they now vote for the ‘feel good’ choice.
Add in the county seat then total up city and county employees; this community is screwed.
walden
April 3, 2025 at 11:02 am
Kevin, you are absolutely correct. La Crosse has a transient student population whose votes are harvested by progressives whose first campaign stop is always at UWL to visit the “stupid kids,” to quote Kamala.
Then you have unionized City, County employees, an explosion of non-profit/NGO employees, unionized school district employees, university staff, etc. all on the taxpayer dime. And their families who also vote. The school board was effectively selected by the teachers’ union/Dem party Chicago style. Just pay your ever increasing taxes for ever decreasing services and grimace. Young families that have the flexibility are wisely choosing to live elsewhere and commute if necessary.