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CLEVELAND — After a year-long review, the Cleveland school board has approved the name changes of three CSMD schools: Patrick Henry School, Louis Agassiz Pre-K-8 School, and Thomas Jefferson Pre-K-12 International Newcomers Academy. The changes are the result of a district working group’s lengthy study that examined the process in which CMSD names its schools as well as a public engagement campaign to identify new names.
On Tuesday, the school board approved three resolutions authorizing the name changes for the schools named after Patrick Henry, Louis Agassiz, and Thomas Jefferson. Louis Agassiz, the Swiss-American biologist, geologist and scientist is known for being a scholar of Earth’s natural history. Although his findings and processes earned him acclaim, his legacy has also been mired by his views on minorities, particularly Black people. Detractors point to the"scientific racism" prevalent in his work.
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