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12 hours ago · Lincoln Public Schools is proposing a a 4.96% increase in the expenditure budget to $539,159,965. That’s a reported $25.48 million increase from last years budget of $513,671,671.
Feb 6, 2021 · Last month, San Francisco’s Board of Education voted, 6–1, to change the names of forty-four schools, including schools named after Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. A committee formed...
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- Lincoln's Name Initially Removed Over Treatment of Native Americans
- The Name Change Never Happened
- Our Rating: Partly False
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The initial decision to remove Lincoln's name from the school was part of a districtwide initiative to rename schools with namesakes the district found problematic. In January 2021, the San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education voted to change the name of 44 of its 125 schools with namesakes tied to what it consideredcolonization, ...
The attempt to change the names under a quick timetable sparked widespread public criticism, leading the school board to step back from its decision that April. The committee's initial decision included incorrect assessments of Revere as a colonist of the Penobscot people and of the name of Alamo Elementary as a reference to the Texas fort rather t...
Based on our research, we rate PARTLY FALSE the claim that San Francisco changed the name of Abraham Lincoln High School because “Black lives didn’t matter to him.” The school board did vote to change the name of the district’s Abraham Lincoln High School following the suggestion of its renaming committee. But that decision was based on Lincoln's t...
Asian Law Journal, January 1998, Excluded, Segregated, and Forgotten: A Historical View of the Discrimination of Chinese Americans in Public SchoolsAssociated Press, Dec. 31, 2018, Lincoln ordered the execution of dozens of Sioux warriors, commuted sentences of othersAssociated Press, April 7, 2021,San Francisco’s Board of Education suspends plan to rename a third of city’s public schools after backlashAssociated Press, Feb. 16, San Francisco recalls 3 school board embers amid parental backlash over pandemic management1 hour ago · The American and Wisconsin flags will fly at half-staff through Thursday, June 27, to honor the life of Lincoln Hills School for Boys staff member Corey Proulx. The 49-year-old died Tuesday after ...
2 days ago · Clark County School District (CCSD) in Las Vegas, Nevada has settled a discrimination lawsuit which alleged that it failed to protect an autistic Jewish student from a heinous antisemitic incident ...
Sep 14, 2023 · ELMHURST, IL – Elmhurst School District 205 demolished and rebuilt Lincoln and Field elementary schools in the last couple of years. So which was the better deal for taxpayers? By the district's...
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Feb 21, 2021 · Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Paul Revere are among the names a San Francisco school board is removing from schools claiming racist actions by the namesakes. Will this happen in Utah, too?
