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Education Board in Virginia Votes to Restore Schools' Confederate Names
WOODSTOCK, Virginia (Reuters) - The education board for Shenandoah County, Virginia, voted early on Friday to restore Confederate generals' names to two public schools in the predominantly white, rural and solidly Republican district, becoming the first in the U.S. to take such an action.
Virginia school board to decide on restoring Confederate names removed from schools
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 removed.
Virginia school board considers restoring Confederate names to schools
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 nation to reinstate such names.
Virginia school board to vote on restoring Confederate names
A Virginia school board could vote for two schools to revert to their original Confederate names in a debate that has bitterly divided a town. In 2020, the Shenandoah County School Board changed the names of Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary in Quicksburg.
A school district removed Confederate names from buildings. Now, they might put them back
In 2021 a district removed Confederate names from two of its schools. An effort failed in 2022 to reverse it. Another is trying to do it again.
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