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Grand Prairie ISD weighs name of Robert E. Lee Elementary

The school is one of several in Texas that honors the Confederate general.

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An Dallas police officer looks on as a crane lifts a statue of Robert E. Lee from Lee Park in Dallas on Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. 
Credit: Cooper Neill for The Texas Tribune

Amid heightened national conversation on Confederate monuments and relics, the Grand Prairie Independent School District will consider renaming Robert E. Lee Elementary. (Dallas Morning News)

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