LAUSD Votes To Make ‘Cesar Chavez Day’ A Holiday
The nation’s second-largest school
district has voted to make Cesar Chavez’s March 31 birthday a school holiday.
The school board resolution approved Tuesday calls for Superintendent Ramon Cortines to come up with a plan to drop another holiday in favor of the day off to honor the late United Farm Workers co-founder.
Board member Yolie Flores Aguilar, who introduced the resolution, says a school holiday honoring Chavez is long overdue.
The state Legislature adopted a bill in 2000 establishing March 31 as a state holiday.
It calls for schools to be closed if their school board agreed.
The Los Angeles Unified School District resolution also calls for establishing service-learning projects "in the spirit" of Chavez by the 2010-2011 school year.
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