San Francisco set to reverse purge of 44 'injustice-linked' school names
by Associated Press in San Francisco from US news | The Guardian on (#5G7VF)
Board voted to strip schools of names it said were linked to racism and sexism but critics said effort was hasty and flawed
The San Francisco school board is poised to reverse a much-criticized decision to purge 44 schools of names it said were linked to racism, sexism or other injustices, among them Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Robert Louis Stevenson and Dianne Feinstein, a longtime Democratic senator from California.
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