The Shenandoah County Public Schools board voted 5-1 Thursday to revert the names of two schools in Quicksburg, Virginia, to those of Confederate officers during the Civil War.
Workers begin to lay the bronze statue of Confederate General A.P. Hill onto a flatbed truck on Monday Dec. 12, 2022 in Richmond, Va. The city of Richmond — the capital of the Confederacy for most of the Civil War …
The decision was rushed, supporters of the reversion say, and the new vote is meant to add democratic input back into the process. The name changes were spurred by a request from the local Coalition for Better Schools, which contends that the name changes are representative democracy in action.
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