A new school that is planned for Wilmington will be named for labor leader Harry Bridges, after a vote by the Los Angeles Unified Board of Education today.
The campus, which will house 1,278 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, will be called the Harry Bridges Span School.
Bridges, who died in 1990, was the longtime leader and founding president of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union.
"He was a labor leader, a community leader, a fighter for our brothers and sisters," said Board member Richard Vladovic.
Councilwoman Janice Hahn, Assemblywoman Bonnie Lowenthal, a rep from state Sen. Jenny Oropeza's office, UTLA President A.J. Duffy and others spoke in support of the naming.
The school will be located on a controversial site -- so-called "Site F" -- in central Wilmington and will replace several businesses and homes. It's a full block bound by Avalon Boulevard, Broad Avenue, L and M streets.
The campus is set to be completed by the 2012 school year.
I agree with Amy Fernandez. I do not know what type of analysis took place that lead the district to build another elementary school. What I do know, as the parent of two recent Banning High students, is that the high school is extremely over crowded which makes it next to impossible to give our children a decent education. I fear that it will only get worse.
I think that it is rediculas that the lausd is building another elementry school we dont need any more we have alot of elementry school located in wilmington what we need is another middle school or high school