No injunction against HISD school name changes

The changes can remain, at least for now.

A civil court judge has declined to stop the Houston school district from changing the names of eight campuses that were named after Confederate loyalists.

Judge John Wooldridge this week denied a request by several taxpayers suing the district to temporarily halt the renaming of the schools with a temporary injunction.

The ruling does not end the lawsuit, filed in June, but represents a significant incremental victory for the Houston Independent School District.

See here for the background. The board of trustees had recently approved a $1.2 million expenditure to pay for the name changes, which depending on your opinion of the name changes themselves is either a necessary expense or a waste of money. The lawsuit will go forward, though I couldn’t find any other reporting to indicate if any kind of schedule were set or anticipated, with the new names remaining in place.

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