CHICAGO (AP) – A Chicago elementary school long named for a U.S. biologist who promoted racist ideology will be renamed for abolitionist Harriet Tubman. The renaming of Louis Agassiz Elementary School to Harriet Tubman IB World School is the first by Chicago Public Schools, which is reviewing school names. The Swiss-born Agassiz, who lived in the 19th century and educated in Germany, was a believer in eugenics, the idea that some characteristics and races are inferior to others and should be bred out of humanity. An effort by parents to rename the school three years ago stalled over cost concerns. The Chicago Board of Education will vote on the name change on Wednesday.
