Echo Park's New School Needs a Name

I dropped by Thursday’s meeting of a committee of the Greater Echo Park Elysian Neighborhood Council that looks after education issues.

On the table was a motion to suggest that the be named after Carlos Moreno, the California Supreme Court Justice who grew up in Solano Canyon and went to local public schools before attending Yale and Stanford.

Moreno, a Democrat, was known for his moderate opinions on subjects like gun control.

Wesley Farrow, chair of the Education, Families, Recreation and Libraries subcommittee, pointed out that Latino males in Los Angeles suffer from lack of role models. He felt naming CRES 14 after Moreno would help give them a good one.

In the end, the committee did not act on a proposal to recommend that the school be named after Moreno.

But a committee member volunteered to investigate what it would take to have input in the naming.

Others were skeptica

Some at the meeting noted that very few Los Angeles schools are named after Latinas.

Echo Park Patch report back on this story and how the community can influence the naming of a new LAUSD-owned campus like CRES #14.