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More than 125,000 kids attend 195 schools still named for Confederate leaders.
What kind of message does that send?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/07/01/schools-named-for-confederates_n_7697488.html
At least 195 public schools around the country have names that memorialize Confederate soldiers, leaders or politicians, according to a Huffington Post analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data from the 2012-13 and 2013-14 school years.
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We also looked at the demographics of the over 125,000 students in these schools, which includes a disproportionately high number of nonwhite students. More than half of students who attend schools named after Confederate leaders are black or Hispanic. About 22 percent of students who attend these schools are black and 31 percent are Hispanic.
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