{"id":225875,"date":"2026-03-18T21:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225875\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:40:07","slug":"what-now-for-orange-county-school-named-in-honor-of-cesar-chavez-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/225875\/","title":{"rendered":"What now for Orange County school named in honor of Cesar Chavez? \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less than six months after Cesar Chavez died, his family members were in Santa Ana engraving their names in cement during a groundbreaking for Cesar Chavez Continuation High School.<\/p>\n

The campus of Santa Ana Unified\u2019s Cesar Chavez High School opened in 1994.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, district officials were reviewing allegations that have emerged in a New York Times investigative report<\/a> accusing Chavez of sexually assaulting female followers as young as 12 in the 1970s. United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, now 95, also told the New York Times that Chavez raped her in 1966.<\/p>\n

ALSO SEE:\u00a0Cesar Chavez Day events scrapped after \u2018disturbing allegations\u2019 about labor leader<\/a><\/p>\n

District spokesperson Fermin Leal said the district was considering how to respond, adding that officials so far had not received any concerned messages from families.<\/p>\n

The late labor leader has been honored in Orange County with a park in Santa Ana and inclusion in multiple murals of the Chicano movement and community achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Less than six months after Cesar Chavez died, his family members were in Santa Ana engraving their names…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225876,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,179,23,611],"class_list":["post-225875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-community","tag-local-news","tag-orange-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225875\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}