Amid ugly debate over past racism, Brea-Olinda school board split over school name change

Was William E. Fanning, pillar of the Brea community and former Brea-Olinda superintendent for whom an elementary school is named, a member of the Ku Klux Klan?
No one knows with certainty, and that doubt has opened a rift in the school district and community that may be difficult to heal.
For the past year and a half, a community group has been lobbying the Brea-Olinda Unified School District board to change the name of Fanning Elementary School because they believe its namesake belonged t