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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 ...
The Virginia NAACP sued the school board in Shenandoah County after it voted to change Mountain View High School to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary back to Ashby Lee Elementary.
Shenandoah County School Board voted five to one in favour of reinstating the original names of two schools
Shenandoah County Public Schools is the operating public school system within Shenandoah County, Virginia. It is governed by a Board of Education. [1] The district operates 10 school sites, including 3 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 3 high schools, and a career and technical education center. [2] Dr. Melody Sheppard serves as the ...
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 only independent government school district under Virginia law is the Eastern Virginia Medical College. All of the K-12 school districts are classified as dependent public school systems by the U.S. Census Bureau. [2]
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 2024, the Shenandoah County school board voted to restore Confederate names to Quicksburg district's Ashby-Lee Elementary and Stonewall Jackson High schools after having removed them in 2020. This appears to be the first district in the country to restore Confederate names once removed from schools. [3]