Hampton School Board approves renamed schools

Five Hampton City Schools will have new names at the start of the new school year.
Credit: Angelo Vargas
Author: 13News Now Staff
Updated: 9:23 PM EDT May 19, 2021
HAMPTON, Va. — A day after neighboring Newport News approved new names for four of its schools, the Hampton School Board changed the names of five of its own schools.
Like Newport News and several other cities in Virginia, Hampton took a look at the origins of its school names and sought to change those that had connections to slavery, the Civil War, and the Jim Crow era.
At its school board meeting Wednesday night, the Hampton School Board unanimously approved the following changes:

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