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By: Staff The Associated Press, Published on Tue Jan 09 201
PETERSBURG, Va. — School officials in a Virginia city plan to vote next month on whether to
rename three elementary schools now named after Confederate leaders.
Petersburg school officials are considering changing the names of A.P. Hill, J.E.B. Stuart and
Robert E. Lee elementary schools. The school board's vote is scheduled for Feb. 7.
Other schools in Richmond and surrounding districts also have schools named to honour Civil
War -era leaders. In Hanover, a group is calling on the school board to change the names of Lee -
Davis High School and Stonewall Jackson Middle School, while a counter -petition has circulated
in support of the Lee -Davis name.
The debate gained attention after the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug.
12. Various Southern cities, including Richmond, are grappling with whether to leave
Confederate monuments standing.
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