Live Breaking News & Updates on Paul Carrington Cameron
Stay updated with breaking news from Paul carrington cameron. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
OCS Approves River Park Elementary and Orange Middle to Replace Cameron, Stanford Namesakes The Orange County Schools Board of Education approved new names for two of its schools on Monday night: River Park Elementary School and Orange Middle School. Both names passed in a single, unanimous vote by the school board. The new names update the schools known as Cameron Park Elementary School and C.W. Stanford Middle School. Renaming the two schools is part of a 14-step strategy outlined in a recent school board policy to improve how the district addresses racial inequities, intolerance and academic disparities. The board voted on several names proposed by a School Renaming Committee, formed earlier in the year to determine the best online submissions from the Orange County Schools community. The committee, made up of 18 people, met six total times and first presented the name options to the board on June 9. ....
Orange County Finalizes Process for Renaming Hillsborough Schools Orange County Schools has finalized the process for renaming Cameron Park Elementary and C.W. Stanford Middle schools in Hillsborough. The schools’ respective principals will lead the community process for the name changes with district staff, residents, parents and students serving on separate renaming committees. The district said it hopes to have the schools renamed in time for the next school year, with the vote for the final name and renaming ceremony happening in the summer. The school board voted in February to change the names of Cameron Park Elementary and C.W. Stanford Middle, which comes as the district strives to improve how it addresses racial inequities, intolerance and academic disparities. A 14-step strategy was outlined in a recent school board policy among the steps being an initiative to “review the names of buildings in our district to examine their origin and compliance.� ....
Editor’s Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Cameron Park Elementary School as a middle school. C.W. Stanford Middle School in the Orange County Schools district will see its name changed in the coming months. The system’s Board of Education on Monday moved ahead with plans to shift the school from honoring Charles Whitson Stanford Sr., a long-time school board chairman for the district who served from 1941 to 1967. The school district dedicated the middle school in his honor in 1970 shortly before Stanford’s death. The decision for change, which comes two weeks after the district unanimously approved to change the name of a middle school that honored a slaveholder, came with a 5-2 vote. School board members Will Atherton and Bonnie Hauser were the dissenting votes. ....
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WTVD) An elementary school named after a man who enslaved more than 1,000 people in the 1800s will be renamed this summer. Orange County School Board unanimously agreed to the name change during a meeting Monday, according to our newsgathering partners at the News & Observer. The Hillsborough school in question is currently called Cameron Park Elementary School. It is named after Paul Carrington Cameron, who was one of the state s richest men. He owned more than 30,000 acres throughout North Carolina, and he enslaved more than 1,000 people to work that land. Cameron Village in Raleigh made the same decision to change its name back in January. ....