School board votes to drop high school's Confederate name
FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — School board members voted Thursday night to rename a northern Virginia high school named for a Confederate general, ending two years of debate on the subject.
The Fairfax County board met late into the night as members tried to decide the fate of J.E.B. Stuart High School's name. Stuart, who was mortally wounded in an 1864 battle, was a slaveholding Confederate general.
The renaming process will start in the fall and the new name must be in place no later than the beginning of the 2019 school year, local media outlets report.
A year ago, the board pawned off the decision to a task force that it hoped would find a compromise. Instead, the task force fractured so badly it issued two separate reports — one in favor of changing the name, one opposed.
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One more step in the right direction...
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It looks like you've become a DU addict based upon the before and after numbers regarding your post count. You still have about 40K more to catch up with me though.
I recognize that some reforms are a good thing, but I also remember why I'm here in the first place and that the Democrats are much closer to being perfect than the alternatives.
