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The vote comes despite an October community survey that found 56% opposition to changing the school names.
“After deep and careful consideration of everything I’ve heard and read, I conclude that renaming both schools is in the best interest of our students and a necessary part of our equity work,” Greg Anderson, chair of the Falls Church School Board, said Tuesday.
The name change is a school board initiative that began in the summer at the height of social unrest and included a survey of the Falls Church community taken in October.
The survey revealed that 56% of the community overall asked that the names stay on the schools, including 61% of the parents of Thomas Jefferson Elementary students and 57% of George Mason High parents.
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Falls Church City Public Schools staff will receive COVID-19 vaccinations on Monday, Jan. 18. (Shutterstock)
FALLS CHURCH, VA All of the Falls Church City Public Schools staff are set to be vaccinated after they became eligible in Virginia s phase 1b of COVID-19 vaccinations.
FCCPS spokesperson John Wesley Brett said in an email that some staff are part of the Fairfax County Public Schools vaccinations with Inova Health System. However, the majority of FCCPS teachers and staff will receive their first dose on Monday, Jan. 18 at the new George Mason High School. The Fairfax County Health Department will set up and conduct vaccinations at the school, which will cover the entire FCCPS staff of just over 500. The two COVID-19 vaccinations available in the U.S. require two doses, with the second taken three to four weeks later.
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