Dallas TX to Address Schools With Confederate Names Thursday
By Ben Russell
The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees will meet on Thursday and continue the process of changing the names of four elementary schools named for Confederate Generals.
The schools in question are named for Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, William Cabell and Albert Sidney Johnston.
The names of Lee and Jackson are well known across the country. William Cabell was a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army and later served as Mayor of Dallas. Johnston was a General who served in the Texian Army, the United States Army and the Confederacy, and he was the highest-ranking officer killed on either side during the Civil War.
Dallas ISD board members will consider an agenda item on Thursday that will ask them to waive the rules for the school name change policy. If the measure is approved, it is expected that the schools in question will have to provide the replacement names by December ...
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