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In the spring of 2020, the school board started discussing the need to investigate the origins behind each of the division's school names and the potential need to rename schools.
Five Hampton City Schools will have new names at the start of the new school year. Credit: Angelo Vargas Author: 13News Now Staff Updated: 9:23 PM EDT May 19, 2021 HAMPTON, Va. — A day after neighboring Newport News approved new names for four of its schools, the Hampton School Board changed the names of five of its own schools. Like Newport News and several other cities in Virginia, Hampton took a look at the origins of its school names and sought to change those that had connections to slavery, the Civil War, and the Jim Crow era. At its school board meeti...