Two years after a major effort to rename New Orleans public schools that once honored slave owners, confederate leaders and segregation supporters, the Orleans Parish school district has begun to physically remove traces of the old names from its buildings.
Amid a national racial reckoning in 2020 sparked by the murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, then-NOLA Public Schools Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr. led the effort to rename about two dozen schools in New Orleans.
The district has the authority to rename school facilities, but names of the programs that operate within them are determined by the charter management organizations.
