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Federal Judge Orders Virginia County to Replace Confederate School Names It Restored in 2024
The ruling says the names were restored for discriminatory reasons and must be replaced on a racially nondiscriminatory basis.
- On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Michael F. Urbanski ruled the Shenandoah County School Board violated federal civil rights laws by reinstating Confederate names to two schools, ordering the board to promptly remove the monikers.
- The board's 2024 decision to revert Mountain View High School to Stonewall Jackson High School and Honey Run Elementary to Ashby-Lee Elementary prompted the NAACP lawsuit, despite board members claiming they were honoring community sentiment.
- Urbanski determined the renaming was racially motivated, noting schools were originally named in 1959 and 1974 to resist federal integration rules, and found reinstating these names inflicts "real, racially disproportionate harm" on Black students.
- In a statement Friday, the NAACP Virginia State Conference called the ruling "a decisive victory" for students, while Kaitlin Banner, deputy legal director at the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, affirmed the court's recognition of harm.
- The board must now adopt new school names "with all deliberate speed" on a racially nondiscriminatory basis, a mandate issued amid broader national efforts under President Donald Trump to restore Confederate figures to classrooms and monuments.
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Federal judge orders Virginia county to replace Confederate school names it restored in 2024
A federal judge has sided with the Virginia NAACP in its lawsuit against a county school board’s reinstatement of Confederate military names to two schools, saying the decision discriminates against Black students.
·New York, United States
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Federal judge orders Virginia county to change Confederate school names it restored in 2024
A federal judge said a Virginia school board’s reinstatement of Confederate military names at two schools discriminated against Black students, and he ordered the board to change the schools’ monikers.
·Norfolk, United States
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