Kan. has 2 contested primaries for school board

Published August 8, 2012 4:57am ET



TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A retired Wichita school administrator defeated a Republican incumbent State Board of Education member in Tuesday’s primary election in Kansas, and a Salina-area school board member was ahead in a Democratic contest in another district.

The races in the 8th District in Wichita and the 6th District, covering northeast and north-central Kansas, were the only contested state school board primaries.

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