Petition Calls on San Francisco School Board to Focus on ‘Improving Schools, Not Renaming Them’

A petition being circulated online in San Francisco is demanding that the city’s Board of Education focus on “improving schools, NOT renaming them.”

The petition calls on San Francisco’s school board to rescind its decision late last month to rename 44 schools in the city that bear the names of former presidents and other historical figures, as well as that of a former mayor of the city.

The board’s action follows the lead of other liberal jurisdictions across the country in stripping from schools and other public buildings the names...