It’s been almost a decade since the Austin elementary school my kids attended, the school formerly known as Robert E. Lee Elementary, was the site of an early skirmish in the latest round of American ...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) -- Local activists are calling for an elementary school in Long Beach named more than 100 years ago after Confederate Army Gen. Robert E. Lee to change its name. On Monday, ...

Well, it could be. After a well-attended and vociferous meeting March 28, the local school board voted to seek a new name for Robert E. Lee Elementary. But while they called for the public to submit ...

In addition to Trump University, Donald Trump may now have an elementary school named after him in Austin, Texas if community members have their say. Last month, the Austin Independent School District ...

COLUMBIA - The question of whether to rename Robert E. Lee Elementary, in part because of its Confederate roots, will be the task of a new group approved by the Columbia Public Schools' Board of ...

Eight names have been identified as finalists for the renaming of Lee Elementary School. Austin ISD’s Board of Trustees voted to rename the school after public outcry regarding its ties to the ...

Looking to distance themselves from their Confederate namesake, officials at Robert E. Lee Elementary School in Austin, Texas recently decided to find a new name for their school. Following in the ...

*Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable President Earl Ofari Hutchinson on Monday, July 20, hailed the decision by the Long Beach California Unified School Board to approve a motion to Rename the Robert ...

Bruce Lee Elementary? Twitter weighs in on plan to rename Robert E. Lee schools Renaming would save schools lots of money. And if they were named after Rush frontman Geddy Lee, it might lead to ...

Lee Elementary lost its name Thursday night, but it didn’t get a new one. The Tulsa School Board rescinded the name Robert E. Lee Elementary School but tabled a renaming to “Lee School” after ...

In 2020, Virginia’s Shenandoah County School Board joined hundreds of other institutions across the country when it renamed two schools to shed their association with Confederate leaders and enslavers ...

Lee Elementary School was named for Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in 1918. STEPHEN PINGRY/Tulsa World STEPHEN PINGRY By Samuel Hardiman Tulsa World Three-hundred seventy-two days after Tulsa Public ...