Jacksonville School Renamings

Outside sign of Robert E. Lee High School.

Jacksonville Public Schools Renaming Fund Seeks $50,000 More In Community Donations

Raymon Troncoso

The Jacksonville Public Education Fund (JPEF) is seeking $50,000 more in community donations after raising 89% of the funds needed to rename six Duval…

School Name Change Election Canvassing Board considers ballots the machines could not read

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Voters Support 6 Duval School Name Changes, Oppose 3

Sydney Boles

Students, alumni and community members of six Duval County schools want to change their names, and three schools’ communities want to keep their names.…

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Activists Push DCPS: Do Black Lives Matter?

Sydney Boles

School administrators and members of Jacksonville’s School Board have been receiving a barrage of emails the past few days, all of them asking the same…

Amy Donofrio poses with Lee High students

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Lee High Students Launch Petition To Bring Back Reassigned Teacher

Sydney Boles

Students at Robert E. Lee High School are circulating a petition calling for teacher Amy Donofrio to be reinstated. The petition amassed nearly 1,500…

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Robert E. Lee High Teacher Investigated After Refusing to Remove Black Lives Matter Flag

Sydney Boles

Tensions flared in a community meeting Thursday night, where the majority Black student body of Jacksonville’s Robert E. Lee High School and a group of…

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Robert E. Lee High School Students Plan Protest Over School’s Confederate Name

Sydney Boles

WJCT News received word Wednesday morning that students of Jacksonville’s Robert E. Lee Senior High School planned to walk out of class in protest over…

Sign outside of Robert E Lee High School on some of the school campus.

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Activists Against Renaming 9 Jacksonville Schools Launch Campaign

Sky Lebron

Melanie Love graduated from Jacksonville’s Robert E. Lee High School in 1979. She was junior class president and student body president during her time at…