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Cleveland is considering renaming 4 public schools. Who would you name them after?

The Cleveland Metropolitan School District is holding public meetings starting this week to discuss possible new names for four elementary schools currently named after men with racist pasts. The schools will likely have new names when children enter the buildings next fall. ....

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Name change for Chicago Public Schools' Agassiz Elementary expected to be the first of many


Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times
When a group of parents embarked on a failed attempt to rename Chicago Public Schools’ Agassiz Elementary three years ago, the pushback was about money and name recognition.
Those who opposed a change understood Louis Agassiz was a Swiss American biologist who promoted eugenics, the belief that some characteristics and races are inferior to others and should be bred out of humanity. But many couldn’t look past the approximately $20,000 it would take to change signs and merchandise, or the positive associations with the school’s name that proud parents would lose.
This year, after the country’s strongest racial justice protests in half a century, those excuses weren’t acceptable anymore, said Tina Holder King, a parent representative on the Agassiz Local School Council who, with other parents and community members, has pushed for a name change. ....

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