The name change is set to take effect on July 1, 2022, which means this year’s seniors will be the last to graduate under the name “Lusher,” according to the school’s spokesperson Heather Harper.
After decades of heated controversy that boiled over in recent years, the Lusher Charter School board has chosen a name to replace that of avowed White supremacist Robert Mills Lusher. The highly ranked public school educating kindergarteners through 12th-graders will become The Willow School. The name is a nod to the Willow Street building where […]