Swordsmyth
06-17-2018, 08:02 PM
The new school will be named after award-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas, after the Mountain View Whisman School District board voted (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Mountain-View-Jose-Antonio-Vargas-immigration-12998495.php) on Thursday.
Vargas emigrated from the Philippines with his family to America when he was 12 years old.
In a statement after the vote, Vargas said, “As a proud product of the Bay Area’s public school system, I am overwhelmed by this totally unexpected and deeply meaningful honor."
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Vargas worked for the Washington Post and was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
It also said that Vargas revealed his undocumented status in 2011, in a New York Times Magazine essay (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html).
"On the surface, I’ve created a good life. I’ve lived the American Dream. ... But I am still an undocumented immigrant. And that means living a different kind of reality," Vargas wrote.
More at: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/17/california-elementary-school-be-named-after-illegal-immigrant-jose-antonio-vargas
CALEctomy.
Vargas emigrated from the Philippines with his family to America when he was 12 years old.
In a statement after the vote, Vargas said, “As a proud product of the Bay Area’s public school system, I am overwhelmed by this totally unexpected and deeply meaningful honor."
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Vargas worked for the Washington Post and was a member of a team that won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007.
It also said that Vargas revealed his undocumented status in 2011, in a New York Times Magazine essay (https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-undocumented-immigrant.html).
"On the surface, I’ve created a good life. I’ve lived the American Dream. ... But I am still an undocumented immigrant. And that means living a different kind of reality," Vargas wrote.
More at: http://insider.foxnews.com/2018/06/17/california-elementary-school-be-named-after-illegal-immigrant-jose-antonio-vargas
CALEctomy.