Parents, Alumni Sue HISD Over Renaming Schools Honoring Confederacy (TX) [View all]
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 2016 AT 10:02 A.M.
BY MEAGAN FLYNN
... changing the names of eight schools with Confederate namesakes didn't go as swimmingly as the board may have planned ...
A group of eight alumni, parents and community members on Thursday morning sued the district, saying its decision is financially imprudent ...
Their suit, filed in Harris County, seeks an injunction to block HISD from using public funds to rename the schools and also seeks to protect the schools as monuments, Wayne Dolcefino, the plaintiffs' spokesman, said. The suit claims HISD violated open meetings laws when deliberating and voting on the changes. Schools affected include Robert E. Lee High School (to become Margaret Long Wisdom High School), Stonewall Jackson Middle School (to become Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence) and John H. Reagan High School (to become Heights High School), among others. Sidney Lanier Middle School wouldn't even need many changes: It would become Bob Lanier, named for the former Houston mayor ...
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/parents-alumni-sue-hisd-over-renaming-schools-honoring-confederacy-8508762
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