Schools named for Washington and Lincoln among those on the chopping block
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) postponed Tuesday’s scheduled talks on how to safely reopen classrooms despite an ongoing lawsuit by the City Attorney’s Office, opting instead to work on renaming 44 of the city’s public schools.
City Attorney Dennis Herrera sued the San Francisco Board of Education and the SFUSD earlier this month for failing to devise a plan to get San Francisco’s 54,000 public school children back in the classroom.
Herrera’s suit alleges the school board and district have had 10 months to create a plan and join the city’s more than 110 private schools that have reopened since September. But instead, the Board of Education focused on renaming 44 schools they believed were offensive for their representation of “White supremacy.”
Schools named after historical and currently prominent figures like George Washington, Abraham Lincoln and Dianne Feinstein have been slated for the chopping block for their connections to slavery, genocide and colonization.
