AUSTIN, Texas – The Austin ISD is soliciting new school names for the five campuses that trustees voted to change because of their associations with Confederate soldiers.
The five schools that will be renamed are the John T. Allan Facility, Zachary Taylor Fulmore Middle School, Sydney Lanier Early College High School, John H. Reagan Early College High School and Eastside Memorial Early College High School at the (Albert Sidney) Johnston Campus.
New names for these campuses can be submitted at AISD facility naming website or by mail at Community Engagement Office, Facility Naming Team, 1111 W. Sixth St., A-230, Austin, TX 78703. People can also suggest names in person at that location.
Suggestions must follow AISD guidelines and cannot be vulgar or use inappropriate language.
Schools can be renamed for a person, group, organization or a place. A person has to have been dead a least a year to have his or her name considered for a period of a year, unless that person is a military member who died in the line of duty.
AISD also requests that any person, group, organization suggested as a name "serve as a model of excellence," have upheld AISD's values or made a significant contribution to society in some way.
Names will be accepted until March 16.
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