“The school on Third Street” — that’s what some parents are calling César Chavez Elementary School after recent reporting revealed the labor activist’s sexual abuse of girls and women.
Now, Long Beach Unified is taking steps to consider renaming it and other campuses with controversial namesakes. School board members on Wednesday directed the superintendent to reconstitute an advisory committee on naming, restarting a stalled process to evaluate current names and suggest new ones. Some parents and administrators say it’s overdue.
During the public comment period at Wednesday’s school board meeting, Li Yun Alvarado, a parent of students at Chavez Elementary, addressed the board with a question: “Should an LBUSD school remain named after a pedophile?”…