Lee High School in Springfield, Va. will officially be named John R. Lewis High School on Friday. Fairfax County School Board approved the name change in July 2020 after students advocated that ...

a high school once bearing the name of a Confederate general has been renamed John R. Lewis High School ... so now we're going to go to Springfield, Va., hundreds of miles north of the Edmund ...

Garcia A Virginia school district announced on Thursday that it would rename Robert E. Lee High School in Springfield for ... this fall at the future John R. Lewis High School.

The new name, John R. Lewis High School, takes effect this ... to remove the Confederate general's name from the school in Springfield, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C., in February.

SPRINGFIELD, Va. (7News) — Last summer the high school originally named after Robert E. Lee was officially renamed John R. Lewis High School. Friday night, hundreds gathered at the Springfield ...

by Kristen Powers, Heather Graf/7News TOPICS: SPRINGFIELD, Va. (7NEWS) — John R. Lewis High School will be rededicated Friday in a ceremony at 4:30 p.m. In July, the high school’s name was ...

SPRINGFIELD, Va. — Friday marked a new beginning for John R. Lewis High School in Springfield. The Fairfax County school, formerly named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee, was officially ...

Students and staff, of the now named John R. Lewis High School, celebrated the school ... April 23 rededication ceremony held in the Springfield school’s auditorium. Students who had advocated ...

A Virginia high school named for Confederate ... before voting to change the school’s name Thursday to John R. Lewis High School. “The name Robert E. Lee is forever connected to the ...

a high school once bearing the name of a Confederate general has been renamed John R. Lewis High School ... so now we're going to go to Springfield, Va., hundreds of miles north of the Edmund ...