Virginia school board votes to restore Confederate names to two public schools
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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."