Burbank Unified School District board member Steve Frintner, a member of the Burbank Unified School District Facilities Naming Committee, at a meeting to discuss changing the name of David Star Jordan Middle School at Burbank Unified School District headquarters on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The school’s namesake, Jordan was a well-known zoologist, educator and first chancellor of Stanford University who was also a known propagator of eugenics, a theory of controlled breeding and separating of races, which was later espoused by the Nazis. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
David Starr Jordan Middle School Principal Jennifer Meglemre, a member of the Burbank Unified School District Facilities Naming Committee, at a meeting to discuss changing the name of David Star Jordan Middle School at Burbank Unified School District headquarters on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The school’s namesake, Jordan was a well-known zoologist, educator and first chancellor of Stanford University who was also a known propagator of eugenics, a theory of controlled breeding and separating of races, which was later espoused by the Nazis. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
Burbank resident Gerrard Panahon, a member of the Burbank Unified School District Facilities Naming Committee, at a meeting to discuss changing the name of David Star Jordan Middle School at Burbank Unified School District headquarters on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The school’s namesake, Jordan was a well-known zoologist, educator and first chancellor of Stanford University who was also a known propagator of eugenics, a theory of controlled breeding and separating of races, which was later espoused by the Nazis. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
David Starr Jordan Middle School parent Laura Jimenez, a member of the Burbank Unified School District Facilities Naming Committee, at a meeting to discuss changing the name of David Star Jordan Middle School at Burbank Unified School District headquarters on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The school’s namesake, Jordan was a well-known zoologist, educator and first chancellor of Stanford University who was also a known propagator of eugenics, a theory of controlled breeding and separating of races, which was later espoused by the Nazis. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)
David Starr Middle School eighth grader Ixchel Sanchez Jimenez, a member of the Burbank Unified School District Facilities Naming Committee, at a meeting to discuss changing the name of David Star Jordan Middle School at Burbank Unified School District headquarters on Thursday, December 13, 2018. The school’s namesake, Jordan was a well-known zoologist, educator and first chancellor of Stanford University who was also a known propagator of eugenics, a theory of controlled breeding and separating of races, which was later espoused by the Nazis. (Tim Berger / Staff Photographer)