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Harlandale ISD board votes to name new multipurpose facility for Judge Edmundo M. Zaragoza
Summary
After extensive public comment, the Harlandale ISD Board of Trustees voted to name the district's new performing arts and competition gym the Edmundo M. Zaragoza Multipurpose Center; the board clarified the existing Shea Center name will remain on the older portion of the site.
The Harlandale Independent School District Board of Trustees voted Jan. 23 to name the district's new performing fine-arts and competition-gym facility the Edmundo M. Zaragoza Multipurpose Center.
The vote followed more than an hour of public comment from community members, former students and Zaragoza's family, who described his decades of service as a teacher, school board member and justice of the peace. Family members and longtime associates urged the board to honor Zaragoza's role in expanding educational access on the South Side of San Antonio.
Supporters told the board Zaragoza was a teacher and coach who later served on the Harlandale school board and as a justice of the peace. "Please consider... I'm totally in support of naming that building,"…
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