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The Boston School Committee voted unanimously on April 10 to change the name of the merged BCLA/McCormack 7-12 school on Columbia Point to the Ruth Batson Academy in honor of the Roxbury woman who fought for equitable education in Boston through the 1960s and 1970s. Principal Ondrea Johnston said the school community, which began its merger in 2021, settled on the name Ruth