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The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting ...
Shenandoah County School Board voted five to one in favour of reinstating the original names of two schools
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
In Virginia, local governments had been banned from removing Confederate memorials and statues until the law was changed in 2020, though the statute did not apply to school names. On Friday, school board members who voted to restore the Confederate names said the previous board ignored popular sentiment and due process when the names were stripped.
School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County voted early Friday to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders – four years after those names had been ...
On July 9, 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board voted to rename the school to Mountain View High School, one of many US schools to remove Confederate names in the wake of the George Floyd protests. [3] In May 2024, the Shenandoah County School Board voted 5–1 to restore the Stonewall Jackson name.
The School Board of Alachua County voted unanimously for the name change. Jesse J. Finley was a Confederate brigadier general. The board unanimously voted to rename the school after Gainesville native Carolyn Beatrice Parker, "the first African American woman in the U.S. to receive a graduate degree in physics", and who worked on the Manhattan ...
The school was formerly named J. E. B Stuart Elementary after the Confederate Army general J. E. B. Stuart; its name was changed in 2018 to remove the historical reference to the Confederacy. The school board voted to rename the school in June 2018. [1] [2] The renaming of the school is expected to cost $26,000. [3]