Jessica O’Neill is a veteran educator with over two decades of dedicated service to the Yonkers Public Schools community. A proud graduate of the district, she attended PS 21, John Burroughs Middle ...

Chicano and civil-rights icon César E. Chávez was born on March 31, 1927, in Yuma, Arizona, to migrant laborers. He worked in the fields before joining the Navy for two years and returning to ...

Though Chávez is not from Texas, his legacy is still far-reaching across the state, with high schools and streets named after him, including Houston's Cesar E. Chavez High School. Here's what ...

Yahir Muñoz is a sixth-grade student who’s been learning about Cesar Chavez. “With protesting ... hundreds of his fellow students. Migrant school advocate Julio Castillo said the school ...

Mari Iturbe-Ortiz, M.D., is the new pediatrician at the Thomas and Agnes Carvel Foundation Family Health Center in Yonkers ... Rosemarie Ann Siragusa School, Cesar Chavez School and the new ...

The Cesar Chavez girls tennis team have been working toward claiming their title to becoming the CIF Division 4 Valley Champions. On November 12, they became the first school in the city to do this.

WASHINGTON (7News) — Sanjay Mitchell, Executive Director and Robert Graham, Assistant Director of Academics at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School discuss their Pepco Stem Lab, a Pepco ...

Activists were emboldened to run for office, speak at city council meetings, and school boards. Burnam sought Chávez’s counsel about seeking a political seat in a Hispanic dominant district.

WASHINGTON (7NEWS) — Dr. Joshua Jackson, Principal at Cesar Chavez and high school senior, Nyla Moore discussed the advantages, opportunities and programs that help students thrive in school and ...

He had been a teacher at Garces High School ... less faith than Cesar in nonviolence,” Chatfield said. Manuel and Richard Chavez were on the point of setting off for New York by car to try ...