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Portland Public Schools Will Reevaluate All Building Names, Starting With Woodrow Wilson High School
By spring of 2021, Woodrow Wilson High School will have a new name.At a July 14 meeting, the Portland School Board announced it would change the name of the Southwest Portland high school. Wilson High received its name in 1954, but in 2020 its namesake is under new scrutiny, as a segregationist and supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.Now the Southwest Portland community's calls for Woodrow Wilson's name to be removed from the school are being answered. Wilson is the first Portland Public Schools building to get a new name, but the School Board says it plans to reevaluate the names...…By spring of 2021, Woodrow Wilson High School will have a new name.At a July 14 meeting, the Portland School Board announced it would change the name of the Southwest Portland high school. Wilson High received its name in 1954, but in 2020 its namesake is under new scrutiny, as a segregationist and supporter of the Ku Klux Klan.Now the Southwest Portland community's calls for Woodrow Wilson's name to be removed from the school are being answered. Wilson is the first Portland Public Schools building to get a new name, but the School Board says it plans to reevaluate the names...WW…
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