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Hillsborough County School District will consider renaming Lee Elementary

Tampa, let's name that school. With the Hillsborough County School Board committed to rebuilding fire-ravaged Lee Elementary, the time has come to decide what to call it. Students, parents and teacher... read more

Special Hillsborough School Board meeting called to considering names for Lee Elementary

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) - The Hillsborough County School Board will hold a special called board meeting on Nov. 15 to consider names for Lee Elementary School. The district began the process ... read more

Tampa school fire ‘not suspicious,’ officials say

Lee back in 1943. The Hillsborough County School Board has taken up discussions about renaming the school in ... listed under Lee Elementary Magnet Students. Hillsborough County School District offici... read more

Florida education news: Funding lawsuit, school names, missing money and more

The Hillsborough County School Board will consider renaming a school that has been named after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The mostly black community the school serves has asked for a change. MISS... read more

Board approves names of new elementary schools, renaming of Hood

Two longtime educators and a state representative will have their names on the three new Ector County ... School District elementary campuses opening in 2015-16. In a 5-0 vote, the ECISD board on Tues... read more

Two Schools Could Finally Lose Their Confederate Names

The tenth largest school district in the nation took the first step toward joining a national effort to rename K-12 and college campus buildings named after slaveowners, Confederate soldiers, and know... read more

NAACP, SCLC make formal requests to rename Hampton schools

Davis is named after Jefferson Davis, and Lee after Robert E. Lee, both Confederate leaders during the Civil War. The NAACP raised concerns about the names, based in part on wording in the policy to n... read more

CDC eases its alert on school closings

The Lee County school district Tuesday night said it will reopen Spring Creek Elementary School in Bonita Springs, where there are two confirmed cases of the swine flu and a third probable case involv... read more

5 school districts cite FCAT problems, ask for delay in releasing school scores

Superintendents of Broward, Miami-Dade, Hillsborough, Duval and Leon county school districts ... In Broward, for example, about 20 percent of elementary schools usually see a dip in fourth-grade readi... read more

Joe Henderson: Hillsborough commissioners vote to preserve history, but what kind?

More importantly, what was so noble about the bloody conflict that four Hillsborough County Commissioners felt ... Next up: The Hillsborough School Board is expected to consider renaming Robert E. Lee ... read more

First of two hearings on Hampton's Confederate-named schools is Thursday

The SCLC first requested that the board consider changing the names of Davis and Lee last March ... Last year, the Williamsburg-James City County School Board voted 6-0 to move forward with renaming R... read more