The Fairfax County School Board will change the name of W.T. Woodson High School, named after a former superintendent who opposed school integration.
The Fairfax County School Board will move forward with changing the name of W.T. Woodson High School, named after Wilbert Tucker Woodson, one of the school district’s early superintendents who opposed school desegregation.
School board member Megan McLaughlin , the main sponsor of the name change, said the Woodson community has talked about renaming the school for years. The effort ramped up after Woodson’s personal papers surfaced during research on the school district’s history of segregation.
Today, Fairfax has more than 180,000 students and a $3.5 billion budget. Woodson High School serves more than 2,400 students. On Tuesday evening, about eight people attended a public forum on the decision to rename the school. Nearly all were in favor.
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