HISD to start process of renaming Confederate-linked schools (TX)
By Ericka Mellon
Updated 7:01 pm, Wednesday, September 9, 2015
... The trustees plan to start the process with a vote to revise the district's policy to state explicitly that names should be non-discriminatory. The revised policy also details how the board can initiate renaming schools.
Board president Rhonda Skillern-Jones said this week that after the policy gains approval, she will propose renaming at least six schools named after Confederate leaders or loyalists.
In June, state Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, called on the Houston Independent School District to rename six campuses following the shooting deaths of nine black churchgoers by an alleged white supremacist in Charleston, S.C. Ellis mentioned campuses including Davis, Lee and Reagan high schools and Dowling, Jackson and Johnston middle schools ...
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