Overview
- The LAUSD board, which voted unanimously Tuesday, set a fall 2026 deadline to rename the César Chávez Learning Academies in San Fernando and César Chávez Elementary in El Sereno and approved funding to remove murals and other tributes on school sites.
- Los Angeles County supervisors took up paired motions Tuesday to rebrand the county holiday as Farmworkers Day, scrub Chávez’s name and likeness from holiday materials, and return in 21 days with a community plan to rename parks, streets, facilities, and monuments.
- City actions are already underway in Los Angeles, where Mayor Karen Bass signed an executive order last week renaming the city’s late‑March holiday to Farmworkers Day.
- San Diego Unified began a formal process Tuesday to rename Cesar Chavez Elementary, which requires a naming committee, multiple public hearings, and a final school board vote before any change takes effect.
- Colleges and arts groups are moving faster on symbols than names, with Southwestern College and Cal State San Marcos removing Chávez honors and Philadelphia’s Mural Arts replacing his image with Dolores Huerta, while longer campus renamings face slow, rule‑bound timelines.