The Dallas ISD Board of Trustees voted unanimously Thursday to approve three new names for elementary schools named after Confederate generals.
Starting with the new school year, Robert E. Lee Elementary will be known as Geneva Heights Elementary; Stonewall Jackson Elementary's new name will be Mockingbird Elementary School and William L. Cabell Elementary becomes Chapel Hill Preparatory.
A fourth school, Albert Sidney Johnston, is expected to choose a new name for itself by February after the board voted to change the name in September. The approved name changes come after months of debate over whether it was appropriate to have schools named after Confederate figures. The board narrowed the list of schools to four and tasked each school with working with a committee of parents, teachers and staff to make recommendations for new names.
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