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AUSTIN - The Austin ISD Board of Trustees voted 8-0 with one abstaining Monday night to change the name of Robert E. Lee Elementary School ...Numerous parents at the school have .. demanded that the school -- currently named after Confederate General Robert E. Lee -- get a name change ...
The district will accept ideas from the public on a new name for the school ...
http://www.kvue.com/news/education/aisd-votes-to-change-name-of-robert-e-lee-elementary/106005815
struggle4progress
(118,228 posts)By KATE MCGEE 12 HOURS AGO
... Just six and a half percent of AISD teachers are black, and Gordon is the only African American school board member. He thinks thats one reason why the school district and other school communities havent pushed harder to change the name of the other three schools named after Confederate leaders: John Reagan High School, Sidney Lanier High School, and Eastside Memorial at the Johnston Campus.
If the school district was majority African American, the names wouldve been changed a long time ago, he says. And that would not have required a whole lot of discussion and back and forth and up and down and convincing this, that and the other thing ...
No one seems to be concerned about having a real conversation about why it was that these schools were named after these folks, what it meant at the time for them to be named that way," Gordon says ...
Saldaña says even though the African American student population is small, 75 percent of students in Austin public schools are students of color ...
http://kut.org/post/lee-elementary-may-be-renamed-divisions-remain-austins-other-confederate-named-schools
malokvale77
(4,879 posts)I wish my old school district in Dallas would follow.