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The measure would reverse the 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 ...
The 5-1 vote the school board decided to reinstate the names Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary School. The names honor Confederate Gens. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, Robert ...
By a 5-1 vote, the Shenandoah County board overturned its 2020 decision that stripped a public high school and elementary school of their original names honoring three military leaders of the pro ...
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]
On May 10, 2024, a new school board voted 5–1 to reverse the name change, and the school was renamed again, this time back to the original Stonewall Jackson High School. [9] As a result, the NAACP filed a lawsuit against the school district, on the grounds that the restoration endorses discrimination against Black students.
A U.S. school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, will vote on Thursday on whether to restore previously removed Confederate names to two schools, potentially becoming the first community in the ...
Robert E. Lee Elementary School (East Wenatchee, Washington), renamed Lee Elementary in 2018 [8] Robert E. Lee Elementary School ( El Paso, Texas ), renamed Sunrise Mountain Elementary School in 2020 [ 9 ]
Honey Run Elementary School went back to the name Ashby-Lee Elementary School. “My belief is the Shenandoah County School Board reaffirmed their commitment to White supremacy and the celebration ...