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A Judge Can Rename a School, but He Can’t Rewrite the Past
['David Manney', "Tim O'Brien", 'Stephen Kruiser', 'Sarah Anderson', 'Eric Florack']
PJ Media
Senior U.S. District Judge Michael Urbanski has told Shenandoah County, Va., that two school names restored by an elected board must disappear again.
“The Confederate names were restored with complete awareness of their historic legacy and ongoing discriminatory impact,” Urbanski wrote.
The judge ordered the board to settle on new school names “on a racially nondiscriminatory basis with all deliberate speed.”
Four years later, a newly constituted school board voted 5-1 to restore them, with private donations paying the costs.
A school board may conclude Jackson should no longer be honored, voters may replace that board, while another board may restore the name.