{"id":328164,"date":"2026-05-22T18:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328164\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T18:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T18:43:09","slug":"public-asked-to-weigh-in-on-cesar-chavez-elementary-rename","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/328164\/","title":{"rendered":"Public asked to weigh in on Cesar Chavez Elementary rename"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Bakersfield City School District is asking for public input on a new name for Cesar Chavez Elementary School through a survey open until 4 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Kern Law Enforcement Association is urging the public to vote to rename the school Phillip Campas Elementary. Campas was a Kern County deputy killed in the line of duty in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The community can submit name suggestions through the district&#8217;s survey before the 4 p.m. deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The push to rename the school comes after allegations against local labor leader Cesar Chavez surfaced in a New York Times article in March.<\/p>\n<p>This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n<p>Stay in Touch with Us Anytime, Anywhere:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KERO) \u2014 The Bakersfield City School District is asking for public input on a new name&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,22328,155,153,152,130510,102957,162,136336,136337,136338],"class_list":["post-328164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-city-school-district","tag-bakersfield-downtown","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news","tag-bakersfield-schools","tag-cesar-chavez-elementary","tag-kern-county-news","tag-kern-law-enforcement-association","tag-phillip-campas","tag-school-renaming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328164","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=328164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}