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Students urge Tempe Union board to recognize Cesar Chavez Day
Summary
Multiple students told the Tempe Union Governing Board they want March 31 observed as Cesar Chavez Day, asking the district to make it a school holiday and an opportunity for education about farm-worker history and labor rights.
Multiple students and young community members used the public-comment period at the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board meeting to ask the district to recognize Cesar Chavez Day as a school holiday.
“Cesar Chavez Day to be a day off from school, not only to remember Cesar, but all the people who fought and died working in the farms,” said Viro Munoz, a sophomore at Mountain Pointe High School and vice president of the Hispanic Latino Student Union Club. Munoz said the day would “allow us to educate our communities on what he did” and to continue…
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