A new law goes into effect July 1 that affects California public schools with mascots or team names that reference Native Americans, impacting several sites in the Fresno area.
According to Assembly Bill 3074, all California public schools not operated by tribal organizations cannot use “any derogatory Native American term” to represent school mascots or athletic teams.
Before the new rule goes into effect this week, Fresno Unified announced new mascots for three elementary schools. Another approach is getting permission from a registered tribe to maintain the mascots in question, which Clovis Unified did for a middle school in December…