Education
La Crosse school board candidate Dr. Merideth Garcia on upcoming challenges, supporting teachers, feeding students, cellphones
La Crosse School Board candidate Dr. Merideth Garcia in studio, the only incumbent in the past two elections for the position, as we discuss a wide array of topics including supporting and keeping teachers, naming buildings, potential cellphone bans and school meal policies.
Garcia also discusses some of the challenges for the upcoming school board, plus what her priorities are if reelected.
La Crosse Talk airs weekdays at 6-8 a.m. Listen on the WIZM app, online here, or on 92.3 FM / 1410 AM / 106.7 FM (north of Onalaska). Find all the podcasts here or subscribe to La Crosse Talk wherever you get your podcasts.
Garcia is one of seven candidates running for La Crosse School Board. You can read more about them here. Voting has started for the primary and the field will be cut down to six after the voting period ends Feb. 18.
walden
February 10, 2025 at 10:40 am
The La Crosse school district has shrunk by 20% over the last decade which was the reason given for closing Lincoln Jr. So Ms Garcia now tells us no jobs were cut after the closure of Lincoln. Then why was the school closed? That property is still being maintained and heated. So where is the cost savings? Is this just more flim-flam from the District?
Bob N.
February 10, 2025 at 3:31 pm
The teacher’s union knows enrollment will be dropping for as far as the eye can see. So, the only way to maintain their dues-paying union membership numbers is to insist that the ratio of pupils- to- teachers keeps keeps shrinking.
Closing schools under the guise of cost-savings is a shell game. There are no cost savings. These teacher/employees are just moved around while the number of students drops and the total kids in each room goes down.
That action gets cheers from helicopter parents who think that their kid should be one of three in the room-needs lots of attention to excel, you know.The flag keeps getting wrapped around teacher/protection moves “IT’s FOR THE KIDS”.