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Dear San Diego Unified Board of Education,

I am writing regarding San Diego Unified School District’s Names Committee resolution H-3 coming before the Board on April 16, 2024, to recommend changing the name of Henry Clay Elementary to Rolling Hills Leadership Elementary. 

Our community came forward to advocate for a restorative name for our community school. The school district has not provided any community education or facilitated engagement. The name Rolling Hills goes against the voice and mission of our community, and goes against the Board of Education’s public commitment toward restorative and racial justice. 

The name Rolling Hills is a known allusion to the name of our neighborhood, Rolando. This was a name created by the land developer in the 1950’s who built this racially redlined neighborhood. A neighborhood where Black people were not allowed to purchase homes. The developers chose Rolando because they wanted a name that sounded “exotic”. To name this school Rolling Hills is to continue to uphold and celebrate a history of white supremacy. 

We were assured repeatedly that the recommended name would not be decided based on popular vote, and yet this is now being cited as the rationale to recommend Rolling Hills. The survey that is being referenced is out of alignment with every other survey and community dialogue that has taken place in the last two years.  The process has lacked transparency, integrity, and honesty. 

We strongly urge you to not accept Rolling Hills Leadership Elementary, and to support the community's engaged, educated, and restorative recommendation bell hooks Elementary School. 

With thanks,

The People of Not OK with Clay

Please send before 4/16/2024

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Nobody's listening.

Why didn't anybody call in?

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975)

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19 Sept 2023 -

Monica Montgomery-Steppe "would support" renaming Clay Park. Amy Reichert also comments.

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...we are very much on the same page with continuing to do the work on getting Andrew Jackson’s name removed. We are working with internal contacts on that and will keep you in the loop whenever there’s additional progress. As you noted, this is a very unique situation of naming/renaming a post office. We learned in this process last year that it’s against the law to “rename” a post office if it has already been named by Congress previously – we were able to get around that because, in this situation, it was President Johnson who designated the Rolando Post Office as the Andrew Jackson Post Office. I am hopeful, in the same regard, that we may be able to find additional loopholes to ultimately get Andrew Jackson’s name removed from the exterior of the newly named Susan A. Davis Post Office.

Amy Kuhn, Chief of Staff, Rep. Sara Jacobs, June 13, 2023

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Regarding the naming – we have been in close contact with the USPS about the process for removing Andrew Jackson’s name from the building, and have done additional outreach to the White House and the Postmaster General himself. We, as employees of the legislative branch, aren’t permitted to be involved in the removal itself, but we have contacted the Postal Service a number of times and continue to do so regarding next steps.

-Amy Kuhn, Chief of Staff, Rep. Sara Jacobs, July 12, 2023

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Our new survey is breaking news!

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