Alabama News Network is getting you ready for the start of football season with our High School Football Previews. This segment features Robert E. Lee and Alabama Christian Academy.
For the first time, potential new names for Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee high schools have been released by the Montgomery County school board.
MPS says Lanier students will be attending Carver once renovations are made to the Carver building. The Lanier building will no longer be in use after the students move.
The Montgomery Public School system is Currently working on changing the names of three of the high schools. Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Sidney Lanier are all names of notable confederate men.
The process to rename three high schools in underway in Montgomery Public Schools. The schools are Jefferson Davis High School, Robert E. Lee High School and Sidney Lanier High School.
A former Robert E. Lee High School student will spend 20 years in prison for a 2017 shooting that critically injured a fellow student, District Attorney Daryl Bailey announced Monday. Judge J. R. Gaines sentenced Quinterrious Norman to 20 years for first-degree assault and discharging a gun into an occupied vehicle. Norman also received a 10-year sentence for third-degree burglary,…
The Montgomery Public Schools system announced the deaths of two coaches. Robert E. Lee High School assistant football coach Dwayne Berry and Capital Heights Middle School P.E. teacher Luscious were the two coaches. “As anyone can imagine, this is a difficult time for MPS. Coach Berry and Coach Lane were loved by the students and their school families. Our hearts…
A renewed push has emerged to rename schools named for Confederate figures amid ongoing nationwide protests over police misconduct and racial injustice. The Southern Poverty Law Center says more than 100 public schools are named for Confederates. Many were founded during the days of segregation as all-white schools but now serve mostly African American students. The Montgomery School system has…
The Montgomery County Board of Education will be holding their scheduled school board meeting on Tuesday, July 14. There are multiple topics being discussed but there is one that many people are interested in. That topic will be the renaming of three schools. Robert E. Lee High School, Jefferson Davis High School, and Sidney Lanier High School are the three…
The list of signatures is growing longer, on an online petition to rename all Confederate-named schools in Montgomery. Monday, more 20,000 people had signed a week-old Change.org petition asking the Montgomery County School Board to the have the names Robert E. Lee High School, Jefferson Davis High School and Sidney Lanier High School. As District 5 school board member Jannah…
