A school board in Virginia voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders at two schools in Shenandoah County. The vote followed a heated meeting of the school board and comes several years after the schools were renamed during a nationwide reckoning with racism. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports.
by WorldTribune Staff, May 10, 2024 The Shenandoah County School Board early Friday approved a proposal to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a 2020 decision by the board to change the names of schools that had been linked to Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, […]
The change comes four years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by George Floyd’s killing.
With over 500 people watching on Youtube, the Shenandoah County School Board voted 5-1 to restore the Confederate general names of schools in its district.
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 removed. The 5-1 vote came after hours of public comment during a meeting that began Thursday evening from people speaking on both sides of the issue. Vice Chairman Kyle L. Gutshall was the sole opposing vote. “I ask that when you cast your vote, you remember that Stonewall Jackson and others fighting on...
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, early Friday approved a proposal that will restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools. The measure, which passed 5-1, reverses a previous board’s decision in 2020 to change the names of schools that had been linked to Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee and Turner Ashby, three men who led the pro-slavery Southern states during the Civil War. Mountain View High School will go back to the name Stonewall Jackson High...
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A Virginia school board voted Friday to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school, four years after the names had been removed.
Schools changed their names after 2020 George Floyd protests, but will now revert to old names celebrating slave-state leadersAn all-white school board in Virginia has voted to restore the names of Robert E Lee and other Confederate military leaders to two public schools in a backlash to the racial reckoning that followed the police murder of George Floyd.The decision to restore the names of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Turner Ashby was taken on Friday morning by the six-member school board in...
Four years ago in the summer of 2020, at the height of the pandemic and the George Floyd protests, the Shenandoah County, Va., school board met virtually and voted 5-1 to change the names of Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High. Both schools were named after Confederate officers, and in the climate in 2020, removing the names was seen as a gesture to "racial reckoning."
Shenandoah County Public Schools board members voted to rename two Virginia schools after Confederate generals four years after they were changed.