Name of Berkeley’s LeConte Elementary School is on the chopping block
Parents and district staffers say conservationist Joseph LeConte, who preached the “evolutionary” benefits of slavery, is not an appropriate namesake for a school.
Sylvia Mendez Elementary School
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School desegregation icon to speak at Longfellow tonight
Sylvia Mendez, who was at the center of the case that desegregated California public schools, is spending the day with kids in Berkeley.
