Ribbon cutting for first school in the nation to be named after a Punjabi Sikh human rights activist

Ribbon cutting for first school in the nation to be named after a Punjabi Sikh human rights activist

The official ribbon cutting was held for a brand new elementary school in the Central Unified School District and the name of the school is making history.

West Fresno leaders celebrate first US school named after a Sikh

Educators at the first school in the United States to be named after a person of Sikh descent held its ribbon cutting on Thursday in west central Fresno. Jaswant Singh Khalra Elementary School, on Brawley and Shields Avenues, will be Central Unified School District’s 15th elementary school. It is slated to open its doors to over 600 students in August and will serve students in pre-school to sixth grade. Khalra was a bank director in the state o…