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Papago equity team recommends 'Agave' or 'Iron Mountain' as replacement names; board asks for wider community input
Summary
Papago School's equity team presented two recommended replacement names (Agave and Iron Mountain) and requested further outreach; the board agreed to additional family and community feedback and set a timeline to return with results for consideration.
The Creighton School District equity team presented updated recommendations for renaming Papago School and asked the governing board for permission to solicit one additional round of community input.
Equity-team members presented two frontrunner names: "Agave," a plant used for food, fiber and medicine by indigenous peoples (and that also holds cultural meaning for Latino community members), and "Iron Mountain," a geographic name presented as an English translation of the original Indigenous name (Vainamdog) associated with the peak commonly known as…
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