{"id":2010,"date":"2021-04-08T21:34:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2021-04-08T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T01:34:06","slug":"the-end-of-an-era-alexandria-city-high-school-chosen-as-new-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/2021\/04\/08\/the-end-of-an-era-alexandria-city-high-school-chosen-as-new-name\/","title":{"rendered":"The End of an Era: Alexandria City High School Chosen as New Name"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After months of discussion and debate, on the evening of April 8, the ACPS school board voted unanimously to give T.C. Williams High School a new name: Alexandria City High School. This name will be effective beginning July 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 23, 2020, the ACPS school board made the decision to change the name of T.C. Williams High School, named after former superintendent Thomas Chambliss Williams, a staunch segregationist \u201cwhose views could not have been more inconsistent with with the vibrant, diverse, and inclusive place we know today,\u201d as stated on ACPS\u2019s \u201cIdentity Project\u201d website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/2020\/10\/02\/t-c-community-weighs-in-on-alternative-t-c-williams-names\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Students<\/a>, teachers, parents, and other community members were given a chance to suggest new names for Alexandria\u2019s only public high school and then vote on finalists once the list was narrowed down.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The finalists from the public poll were \u201cAlexandria High School\u201d with 34.20% of the vote, \u201cTitan Community High School\u201d with 21.26%, of the vote, and \u201cRuth Bader Ginsburg High School\u201d with 10.13% of the vote. Superintendent Gregory Hutchings presented the name \u201cAlexandria High School\u201d to the school board for consideration. The school board discussed the possibility of using the name \u201cThe City of Alexandria High School\u201d and retaining the initials \u201cT.C.,\u201d but ultimately chose the name \u201cAlexandria City High School\u201d in a final vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hutchings said he was pleased with the new name and then declared \u201cgo AC!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After months of discussion and debate, on the evening of April 8, the ACPS school board voted unanimously to give T.C. Williams High School a new name: Alexandria City High School. This name will be effective beginning July 1. On November 23, 2020, the ACPS school board made the decision to change the name of T.C. Williams High School, named after former superintendent Thomas Chambliss Williams, a staunch segregationist \u201cwhose views could not have been more inconsistent with with the vibrant, diverse, and inclusive place we know today,\u201d as stated on ACPS\u2019s \u201cIdentity Project\u201d website. Students, teachers, parents, and other community members were given a chance to suggest new names for Alexandria\u2019s only public high school and then vote on finalists once the list was narrowed down.&nbsp; The finalists from the public poll were \u201cAlexandria High School\u201d with 34.20% of the vote, \u201cTitan Community High School\u201d with 21.26%, of the vote, and \u201cRuth Bader Ginsburg High School\u201d with 10.13% of the vote. Superintendent Gregory Hutchings presented the name \u201cAlexandria High School\u201d to the school board for consideration. The school board discussed the possibility of using the name \u201cThe City of Alexandria High School\u201d and retaining the initials \u201cT.C.,\u201d but ultimately chose the name \u201cAlexandria City High School\u201d in a final vote.&nbsp; Hutchings said he was pleased with the new name and then declared \u201cgo AC!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Screen-Shot-2021-04-08-at-9.32.12-PM.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2015,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}