{"id":378386,"date":"2026-07-19T03:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378386\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:15:14","slug":"cesar-chavez-learning-center-is-now-east-dallas-elementary-school-after-dallas-isd-board-of-trustees-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/378386\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez Learning Center is now East Dallas Elementary School after Dallas ISD Board of Trustees vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dallas ISD Board President Joe Carre\u00f3n\u2019s District 8 includes the former Cesar Chavez Learning Center, now East Dallas Elementary School. Photo by Renee Umsted.<\/p>\n

Dallas ISD Board of Trustees approved changing the name of Cesar Chavez Learning Center to East Dallas Elementary School<\/a> at last month\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

This will be in effect for the upcoming school year at the Old East Dallas campus at the corner of North Carroll and Ross Avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The board reportedly<\/a> started considering the name change after sexual abuse and rape allegations were lodged against Cesar Chavez, the school\u2019s namesake and civil rights leader, in The New York Times<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

All board members at the meeting voted in favor of the change, but District 3 Trustee Dan Micciche<\/a>, whose territory includes areas in Lake Highlands and east of White Rock Lake, raised a point about the name.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe name \u2018East Dallas Elementary School\u2019 is likely to cause confusion because in my part of town, which we call East Dallas, we have lots of East Dallas elementary schools,\u201d Micciche said during the meeting. \u201cIn fact, when we talk about them collectively, we talk about the East Dallas elementary schools. And ironically, even though this location is in what once was East Dallas, it\u2019s now called Old East Dallas. And so when people refer to East Dallas, they\u2019re not referring to the Ross Avenue corridor. They\u2019re referring to the White Rock Lake area of Dallas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite this, the board member still agreed that the change needed to happen.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can live with it,\u201d Micciche concluded.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Board President Joe Carre\u00f3n<\/a>, whose District 8 includes Cesar Chavez Learning Center, said the effort to change the school\u2019s name was an extensive process executed by those connected to the campus.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis East Dallas community decided to take pride in its East Dallas historic roots and bring this name forward,\u201d Carre\u00f3n said during the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas ISD Board President Joe Carre\u00f3n\u2019s District 8 includes the former Cesar Chavez Learning Center, now East Dallas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-378386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}