The San Leandro Unified School District will host a public forum next month about a proposal to rename Woodrow Wilson Elementary School.
According to a district news release, the proposal was submitted by school staff and family members who want to change the name because of the former president's "re-segregation of the federal government and vocal support for racist policies and practices during his tenure."
District officials have already conducted several staff and community meetings to discuss the proposal, submitted in July 2020, and have sent a survey to current school families.
Both efforts indicated support for the renaming effort.
The forum will be held virtually on March 2.
The effort comes just a week after the Board of Education in the San Francisco Unified School District voted to strip 44 schools of their names, branded "problematic" by a district-appointed panel. Those names included other U.S. presidents like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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