The Coalition for Better Schools has raised more than $60,000 since its organizers started fundraising to help finance the restoration of names of Confederate generals to two schools in Shenandoah County, Virginia.
“We have raised over $60,000 and paid out over $52,000,” organizer Mike Scheibe told The Dallas Express about the effort to restore the names of Stonewall Jackson High and Ashby-Lee Elementary. The schools’ names had been changed to Mountain View High and Honey Run Elementary, respectively. “We have team uniforms and the gym floors to pay for coming up.”
Most of the expense has gone to “signage, painting, clocks, [and] some uniforms,” he added. Scheibe anticipated that the largest cost would not be the signage but the uniforms, perhaps as much as “80% of costs in the end.”
