Burnett Child Development Center to be renamed Leola M. Havard Early Education School after district’s first African American female principal

May 14, 2011

The Burnett Child Development Center has been renamed in honor of the first African American woman school principal in the San Francisco Unified School District, Leola M. Havard. Community members called for a renaming of the school site due to Peter Burnett’s past political stances and support of laws which resulted in the discrimination against Blacks, Asians and Native Americans.