{"id":782310,"date":"2026-05-08T16:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782310\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T16:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:28:30","slug":"cesar-chavez-high-school-officially-renamed-to-cactus-canyon-high-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/782310\/","title":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez High School officially renamed to Cactus Canyon High School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cesar Chavez High School has been officially renamed to Cactus Canyon High School, after a measure passed on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Phoenix Union High School District first , with governing board members condemning any abuse and standing with victims of abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The PXU Governing Board temporally renamed the Laveen school to \u201cChampion Circle High School\u201d while it conducted its community-led naming process.<\/p>\n<p>, the top five community-proposed names were:<\/p>\n<p>1. Laveen High School<br \/>2. Champion Community High School<br \/>3. Cactus Canyon High School<br \/>4. Laveen Village High School<br \/>5. Sierra Estrella High School<\/p>\n<p>The move \u00a0to remove the late labor leader\u2019s name and likeness from all city property.<\/p>\n<p> detailing allegations of sexual misconduct and abuse by Chavez was published by The New York Times in March. Among the revelations were accounts from fellow civil rights activist Dolores Huerta, who said she was assaulted by Chavez.<\/p>\n<p>Following the Times\u2019 report, the city of Phoenix immediately covered signage at Cesar Chavez Plaza and began removing 43 ceremonial street signs along Baseline Road. The city also officially renamed the March 31 holiday \u201cFarmworkers Day\u201d to shift the focus from Chavez to the labor movement itself.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/veenstra_david\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @veenstra_david<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                        <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/newsletters\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/KTAREmail-830x100-1.jpg\" width=\"830\" height=\"100\" alt=\"newsletter sign up\" style=\"display:block;margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;height:auto;\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t&#13;<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cesar Chavez High School has been officially renamed to Cactus Canyon High School, after a measure passed on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":782311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,1589,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-782310","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-phoenix","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116539903727752151","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=782310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/782310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/782311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=782310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=782310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=782310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}