San Francisco School Board Votes To Rename Schools Named After Dianne Feinstein, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington

Tuesday night, the San Francisco School Board voted to accept the recommendations of a “renaming committee” and voted to officially rename 44 public schools bearing the names of “controversial” historical figures, including former Presidents Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover; Revolutionary War hero Paul Revere; inventor Thomas Edison; and longtime California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein.

San Francisco commissioned the renaming committee in October of 2019, and the school board announced they were putting the committee’s name change recommendations to a vote back in December. At the time, the decision to rename the schools was not final. Tuesday’s vote made the 44 name changes official and set the committee’s recommendations into motion, according to NBC Bay Area.