Virginia board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
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The Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia voted 5-1 to revert two schools, previously renamed for racial justice, back to their original Confederate-associated names, Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary.
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Virginia school board to decide on restoring Confederate names removed from schools
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Virginia board votes to restore Confederate names to 2 schools
By Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — School board members in Virginia’s Shenandoah County will vote Thursday on a proposal to restore the names of two schools that previously honored Confederate leaders. The board meeting will be held Thursday evening at the Peter Muhlenberg Middle School in Woodstock, Vir…
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting agenda published online.
On Thursday, Virginia's Shenandoah County School Board was scheduled to consider reinstating Confederate leader names on two schools from which the names had been removed in 2021.
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.
Board members who voted to restore the Confederate names say the previous school board ignored popular sentiment and due process when the names were stripped.
In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, a school board in Virginia stripped the names of Confederate military figures from two schools. Four years later, the...
Board members overturned a 2020 decision to rid the schools of their racially charged names. Shenandoah County now becomes the first district in the nation to revert to naming schools after Confederate "heroes."
A Virginia school board has voted to restore the names of Confederate military leaders to a high school and an elementary school four years after the names were removed. Shenandoah
A school district in Virginia voted to restore the names of Confederate generals to schools, becoming the first board in the country to reinstate names.
There has been a concerted effort in recent years to sever ties with the nation's past. Iconoclasts and revisionists have toppled hundreds of statues, renamed species, melted down busts, removed church windows, dug up graves, changed place names, and gone so far — as the Biden administration did l..
The school board voted on Friday to reverse a decision made four years ago, when the killing of George Floyd prompted nationwide demands for a racial reckoning, to rename the schools.
WOODSTOCK, Va. (AP) — 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.
Virginia’s Shenandoah County School Board reportedly voted 5-1 Friday to reverse a decision in 2020 by reinstating Confederate officers’ names to two campuses.
The school board of Shenandoah County, Virginia voted to reinstate the original names of two schools in their district that honor significant Confederate generals.
The Shenandoah County School Board in Virginia voted 5-1 to revert two schools, previously renamed for racial justice, back to their original Confederate-associated names, Stonewall Jackson High School and Ashby Lee Elementary.
