District could delay Lee School name change for new options
June 15, 2018
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A Tulsa school district wants to delay renaming a school whose namesake is Confederate General Robert E. Lee amid pushback that the new name isn't so new.
Tulsa Public Schools voted last month to rename the elementary school "Lee School," but many residents questioned why the school would keep the general's surname, saying the change wouldn't do enough to remove its Confederate origins.
Hundreds of people had petitioned to change the school's name following violent protests last year at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Principal Aubrey Flowers wr...
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