D’s Robert E. Lee Elementary could get new name (CA)
By Maureen Magee
5:18 p.m. Oct. 15, 2015 | Updated, 7:53 p.m.
... At the urging of Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, the school will host the first of two community forums next Friday to discuss whether or not Lee should be scrubbed from the campus marquee ...
“I feel strongly that we shouldn’t have a school named for a Confederate general who fought against the U.S. over the right to own people,” Gonzalez said. “ I have an African-American child. That any child, especially those whose ancestors were enslaved, should attend a school named for a Confederate general seems wrong.”
Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend vetoed a bill co-authored by Gonzalez that would have banned California schools, roads and other public facilities to be named after Confederate leaders ...
Gonzalez sent a team to knock on doors in the area around Lee to discuss the possibility of renaming the school. The neighborhood canvassing - which included educating some on the history of the Civil War general - resulted in 93 residents saying they support a new name, and 34 opposing the effort, Gonzalez said ...
http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/2015/oct/15/lee-school-faces-renaming-effort/
