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Two Vancouver schools renamed due to controversial namesakes
A couple of Washington’s oldest schools will have their name changed.Harney Elementary School and Peter S. Ogdon elementary ...
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Two Vancouver schools renamed due to eponymous figures’ violent legacies
Two Vancouver schools will don new names to separate themselves from the violent legacies of their eponymous historical ...
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2 Vancouver elementary schools renamed over history of namesakes who committed racial violence
The Vancouver Public Schools board voted Tuesday to rename two elementary schools whose historical namesakes carried out racial violence and killings during the expansion of the American West.
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Vancouver parents outraged by winter shelter planned near elementary school
Families in Vancouver are outraged as the city plans to open a winter shelter just steps from an elementary school. A former loss prevention officer was convicted of sexually assaulting a ...
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Vancouver teachers ‘walk-in’: ‘With public education under attack, we show up and we fight back’
Nearly 30 teachers, staff, PTA members and students lined up at dawn Wednesday outside Eleanor Roosevelt Elementary School in Vancouver to send a message to elected officials that public education ...