EL PASO, Texas (EL PASO MATTERS) — The Ysleta Independent School District plans to cancel its May 3 school board election after the only candidate to challenge an incumbent dropped from the race. The YISD school board will vote March 19 whether to accept Gustavo Arturo Bujanda’s withdrawal no tice for the District 5 seat, which covers the Hanks High School feeder pattern. The board will also vote whether to cancel the election, effectively declaring the unopposed incumbents reelected for another four years. Bujanda told El Paso Matters he withdrew his candidacy when he learned he did not live within the District 5 boundaries. Incumbent Cruz Ochoa, who has served on the board since May 2017, is now running unopposed. The other three include Carlos Bustillos, Kathryn Lucero and Shane Haggerty, who ran unopposed in 2021.  In May 2023, trustee Connie Woodruff did not face a challenger.  That means that of the seven trustees currently serving, Mike Dwyer and Chris Hernandez are the only ones to have faced opponents in their most recent elections. ...read more read less