Houston schools spend $1.2 million to ditch Confederate building names; parents sue

Houston schools spend $1.2 million to ditch Confederate building names; parents sue - The College Fix:
"Parents are irate that the Houston Independent School District will spend over one million dollars for the costs associated with the renaming of eight schools — so irate, in fact, that they’re suing.
Superintendent Ken Huewitt asked the school board to approve the $1,245,197 on Thursday, and had said on Monday that this agenda item was in response to the lawsuit.
As the Houston Chronicle reports, the lawsuit suit claims that, at a past board meeting, the costs for renaming were initiall

y listed as “none.” 
Then, in May, the costs were listed as coming from the “general fund – fund balance.”
Some of name changes include:

— Dowling Middle School to Audrey H. Lawson Middle School. Richard Dowling was a Confederate army officer; Lawson “was a community activist and founding first lady of Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church” who started two charter schools.

— Jackson Middle School to the Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson was a Confederate general; Navarro was a “committed civic leader [who] served Houston well by serving on the METRO Board and the Houston Parks Board” and founder of the Association for the Advancement of Mexican-Americans.

— Lee (formerly Robert E. Lee) High School to Margaret Long Wisdom High School. General Robert E. Lee was commander of the Confederate army; Wisdom taught in the Houston schools for 38 years and was once president of the Congress of Houston Teachers."