2/27/2018 Palo Alto: Eugenics controversy spurs school name changes

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Palo Alto: Two schools named

after eugenics advocates to get
new names
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District’s schools will include a unit about

California and Palo Alto’s role in the eugenics
movement

Palo Alto School Board president Terry Godfrey, left, discusses

renaming two middle schools alongside with Superintendent Max
McGree during the board’s meeting Friday, March 17, 2017.
(Jacqueline Lee / Daily News)

By JACQUELINE LEE | Bay Area News Group

PUBLISHED: March 17, 2017 at 8:13 pm | UPDATED: March 22, 2017 at 5:49 pm

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Jacqueline Lee Jacqueline Lee formerly covered Palo

Alto for the Bay Area News Group.
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