William L. Cabell Elementary

Dallas ISD Trustees Unanimous on Name Changes, Racial Equity Resolution

By Bethany Erickson / December 15, 2017 /

Shortly after the Dallas ISD board of trustees voted unanimously to approve a resolution that many feel is one of the first steps toward healing the animosity some still feel even decades after Dallas ISD finally desegregated under judicial oversight in 1967, they took the tangible step of renaming three schools currently bearing the names…

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Dallas ISD Board Votes To Scrap Names of Confederate Leaders From Schools

By Bethany Erickson / September 29, 2017 /
Dallas ISD

The discussion was at times contentious, but overall, Dallas Independent School District trustees were unified in their desire to change the names of four schools currently named for Confederate leaders. The board voted unanimously to require schools named after Albert Sidney Johnson, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson and William L. Cabell to change their…

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