The Dixie school board voted Tuesday night to change the name of its 150-year-old district after critics linked it to the Confederacy and slavery.
The Dixie school board voted Tuesday night to change the name of its 150-year-old district after criticsTrustees voted 3-1, with one abstention, to change both the name of the Bay Area district and the name of its elementary school by Aug. 22, when classes resume.However, the board didn’t choose a new name. A committee made up of parents, other community members and district staff will be set up to solicit and evaluate suggestions from the public.
The cost of the name change, such as replacing signs, was estimated at nearly $40,000, but the Marin Community Foundation pledged to cover it. Those who support changing the name say the district was named Dixie by James Miller, the school founder, on a dare by Confederate sympathizers. Those who oppose the change say the school system was named for Mary Dixie, a Miwok Indian woman that Miller knew in the 1840s.
An opponent of the name change, Mette Nygard, said the “ugly insinuations” tarnished Miller’s reputation.
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