Virginia school district to restore Confederate names at 2 schools
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Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools
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...
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Virginia School Board Votes to Restore the Names of Three Confederate Officers to Schools
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."
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Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names at 2 schools: report
Shenandoah County Public Schools board members voted to rename two Virginia schools after Confederate generals four years after they were changed.