Dallas students voted to drop Confederate general’s name from school, selected new one

Tawnell D. Hobbs
Published: March 21, 2016 7:18 pm

After voting to drop a Confederate general’s name from their school last month, students at John B. Hood Middle School indicated Monday that they want the name Piedmont Global Academy to grace their building.

Piedmont is an old housing addition southeast of downtown Dallas ...

... Final approval of the name change must come from the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees.

Trustees had a discussion about DISD schools named for Confederate soldiers at a briefing earlier this month. The district has at least three other schools named for Confederate officers: Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee elementary schools in East Dallas and Albert Sidney Johnston Elementary in east Oak Cliff ...

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