Schools
Washington-Lee High School Will Be Renamed: Report
The Arlington School Board reportedly has voted to expunge Robert E. Lee's name from the school.
ARLINGTON, VA -- Washington-Lee High School is getting a new name after the Arlington School Board decided that Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's name and likeness should not be associated with the school, according to a report.
ARLnow.com reports that the Board had been considering a change since last summer in the wake of the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville that turned violent.
The Board will now move forward with finding a new name for the school, which has had the same name since 1925 when it opened.
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The school's logo features both a picture of George Washington and Lee, who led the Confederate Army during the Civil War. In Charlottesville, it was the proposal to remove the statue of Robert E. Lee that sparked the violent protests by white supremacists that would culminate in a man driving a car into a group of left-wing activists, killing a woman and injuring others.
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