California school districts with schools that bear Cesar Chavez\u2019s name are grappling with whether to rename their campuses following sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader.<\/p>\n
According to California Department of Education data, there are eight of the 50 or so California schools named after Cesar Chavez are dotted across the Central Valley.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Madera Unified School District said the school district is not considering renaming Cesar Chavez School, one of the district\u2019s elementary schools in the city\u2019s southeast corner.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf any future considerations arise, they will be approached thoughtfully, in alignment with board policy and with input from our community,\u201d a spokesperson for the district said.<\/p>\n
Sacramento City Unified said it\u2019s preparing to start community conservations and plans to rename Cesar E. Chavez Elementary School in the city\u2019s Meadowview neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Stockton Unified also has one school named after Chavez and said it is \u201ccontinuing to gather information.\u201d The district said it would form a Citizens\u2019 Advisory Committee should a name change be considered.<\/p>\n
The only Fresno County school named in honor of Chavez is in Parlier Unified. The district did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.<\/p>\n
Bakersfield City School District has one school named after Chavez, and the district said it\u2019s \u201cevaluating all options\u201d regarding the name. Another Kern County district, Delano Joint Unified, said it\u2019s reviewing the name of its school named after Chavez.<\/p>\n
Chavez has one school named after him in Merced County. Jose Gonzalez, superintendent of Planada Elementary School District, said no formal decisions have been made about the school name, though the district is considering all options and will discuss the matter during a special board discussion Thursday night.<\/p>\n
Ceres Unified in Stanislaus County has one school named after Chavez. Although the district hasn\u2019t made any decisions yet, it\u2019s keeping an eye on the matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe continue to monitor the situation closely and will determine any next steps as appropriate and in accordance with our Board Policy, which allows for the renaming of existing schools or facilities under extraordinary circumstances and after thorough study,\u201d a spokesperson for the district said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California school districts with schools that bear Cesar Chavez\u2019s name are grappling with whether to rename their campuses…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[512,16847,112,114,113,65486,16722],"class_list":["post-229036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-central-valley","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-madera-unified","tag-school-districts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229036","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=229036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}