The Wantagh School District has been granted a one-year extension by the state Education Department to fully comply with its mandate to ban Native American mascots, depictions and names.
Wantagh will now have until June 30, 2026, to change its name from the “Warrior.” The state Board of Regents unanimously voted in April 2023 to ban the use of Native American mascots, team names, logos and depictions. Schools were originally tasked with establishing a new mascot by the end of the 2022-23 school year, but this was later changed to June 2025.
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Wantagh gets one-year extension to change its name
