Nearly three years after a mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, a new school in Stratford, Conn., has been named after a teacher who died trying to protect her first-grade students.
The Victoria Soto School was dedicated in a ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Friday.
“To see her name on this building is so special,” Donna Soto, Victoria’s mother, said in an email to the Los Angeles Times on Saturday. “One thing I always feared was 'people will forget.'
“Now her name lives on in the lives of all the children and teachers that attend this school.