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The potential renaming of Rosita Elementary School is on the agenda of the Garden Grove Unified School District Board of Education when it meets on Tuesday night.
A community member suggested that the school, located at 4726 Hazard Ave. in Santa Ana, be named after the Palomino family, key participants in the historic Mendez v. Westminster case which helped end racial segregation in California public schools and across the nation.
Frank Palomino and Irene Palomino were a party to the historic lawsuit of Mendez v. Westminster, which complained that Mexican students were segregated into a separate school in not only the Westminster School District but several other Orange County districts as well.
The plaintiffs prevailed at the state Supreme Court and the case was cited as a precedent in Brown vs. Board of Education in 1954 in which the U.S. Supreme Court outlawed racial segregation in public education nationally.
The GGUSD serves most of Garden Grove and parts of Anaheim, Cypress, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Stanton and Westminster. The board meets at 10331 Stanford Ave., Garden Grove at 7 p.m.
