Dianne Feinstein Elementary School will be renamed, along with about a third of San Francisco’s other public schools, according to a report in Jweekly.com.
The move comes after the San Francisco Board of Education voted overwhelmingly to change the names of 44 schools whose namesakes were associated with racism and white supremacy. Their issue with Feinstein, who is Jewish, relates to a 1984 incident from when she was mayor of the city, nearly a decade before she was elected as a senator representing California.
At the time, Feinstein had defended the display of a Confederate flag at City Hall, and even replaced the flag after it was torn down by protestors, Jweekly reported.
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Worlds collide as UC Davis graduate students in music and the creative writing program come together to bring us a performance. This concert will showcase collaborative works among five creative writing MFA students and four doctoral students in music composition and theory. The noon concert will also include music, theatre and dance students performing, as well as music faculty. The prerecorded concert will be shown on the
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Feb. 4, 12:05 p.m to 1 p.m. This is the third year of the collaboration. Originally scheduled for spring 2020, the concert was delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions.
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The renaming process was led by a committee created in 2018 to study the names of schools amid a national reckoning on race that followed the deadly white supremist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
Schools set to be renamed include Abraham Lincoln High School, George Washington High School, Dianne Feinstein Elementary, Roosevelt Middle School, Jefferson Elementary and Alamo Elementary.
While Washington and Thomas Jefferson were chosen because they were slave-owners, Lincoln, most known for leading the U.S. to defeat the Confederacy and enacting measures to abolish slavery, was recommended due to his reported treatment of Native Americans.
San Francisco school board votes to rename 44 schools, including Abraham Lincoln and George Washington High Schools
The San Francisco Unified School District voted this week to rename 44 schools named after controversial public figures, including former Presidents George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and current Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
The school district, which has more than 57,000 students enrolled, is changing the schools named after historical figures linked to “the subjugation and enslavement of human beings; or who oppressed women, inhibiting societal progress; or whose actions led to genocide; or who otherwise significantly diminished the opportunities of those amongst us to the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness,” according to the text of the resolution.