The Bakersfield City School District moved closer to renaming Cesar Chavez Elementary School Tuesday night, as board members reviewed possible new names after receiving hundreds of community responses.
A district committee recommended several options, including Harvest Valley, Mountain View, and Katherine Johnson, the NASA mathematician who helped guide some of America’s earliest space missions.
Community members urged the board to consider names that honor the history of the farm worker movement. One speaker suggested honoring Helen Chavez…