, claim woodson was named only initially support gradual desegregation. fairfax county school board members sandy evans says four jeb stewart students came to meet with her two weeks ago. >> i was very impressed with the students who came to me and wanted to have this conversation about is it time to change the stewart high school name? >> reporter: we were unable to reach the petition writers for comment. here's how they put it in the petition. but not all of their school mates think there is a problem. they wonder how thousands of alumni would feel if the jeb stuart name would be erased. >> so much to change a name the school has had the name for a long time and, like, not really that necessary to change it. >> reporter: another school board member believes the names are entrenched in the community but that's important to use education to put them in context. >> when you talk about renaming roads and intersections and malls or schools i mean, now you're talking about unthreading the tapestry of an entire community and i think what's better is to keep th

their change.org petition seeks changes of names for lee and woodson, claim woodson was named only initially support gradual desegregation. fairfax county school board member sandy evans says four jeb stuart students came to meet with her two weeks ago. >> i was very impressed with the students who came to me and wanted to have this conversation about is it time to change the stuart high school name? but their petition has competition there are two other drives asking the school names be kept even some fellow jeb stuart students wonder how thousands of alumni would feel if the jeb stuart name were arraysed. >> so much of a problem to change the name. >> reporter: a strong majority oppose the name change. the names are entrenched in the community but that it's important to use education to put them in context. >> i think we can't rewrite history. i think the better option is you know, educating and speaking with people about history in context. >> reporter: now both school board members make it clear that no school name change is imminent. sandy evans says the real discussion really needs to

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lee and woodson high schools. some students and some alumni are pushing pretty hard for change while another petition wants to keep those names and both of those petitions are gaining momentum. surae chinn reports from jeff stewart high school in falls church. >> reporter: jeff stewart high school is named after a confederate general, as is robert e. lee high school. now woodson high school is named after a former school superintendent who delayed integration in fairfax county public schools. well, petitions and this particular petition is calling for the school board to change these names. >> it's time to change the name of this high school. >> reporter: lisa mcquail, class of '78 of jeff stewart high school has formed an online petition to rename her old high school. >> our school was named jeb stewart high school in 1959 by segregationists. we need to own up to that. >> reporter: another response is titled do not change school names. petitioner's write enough is enough. if you don't like it, move. jennifer from

. >> derrick says this whole ordeal with hd woodson high school has taught him how quickly, and how difficultod can be. >> i was so disappointed like how can you say you are going on a trip one day and then the next, you can't go. >> but that's exactly what happened to derrick and loreas. >> nothing wrong with my brain, nothing wrong with my mind nothing wrong -- this wheelchair does not handle me what i opportunity do in life. >> derrick said he couldn't believe the support they received from their story. after both companies and people from across the country began reaching out. >> it really brought me to tears when saw those comment because it feels like i'm not the only one that feels like this. a lot of people around the country, around the worlds, feel that we deserve better. >> only month out of high school this honor student want people to noah important message from the situation. >> and i want to let people know that, too, just because you have some type of disability doesn't mean you cannot do what you want to do. >> in the district, kelly fox news. >> you ready for this? it will b

i am bob woodson founder and president of the center for neighbor enterprise and -- organization i found a 34 years ago on the premise that people who are experiencing poverty i did this on how to solve already. for the past 34 years we have been like a geiger counter will. we go in looking for strengths. with traditional approaches but i want to no how many people raising children and with this demographic profile ago for foundations of government. the government funds the organizations. perish you organizations. parachute programs and low income neighborhoods with the expectation of poverty we will be really feared it. $0.70 of every dollar goes not to the poor but those who serve poor people last night with problems are solvable which was a fundable. as a consequence we have created a commodity out of serving poor people and we wonder why we failed. so i think -- and also, the experts as solving poverty are the professional social scientists. i have been in washington dc for over 40 years. whenever a conference like this is convened, what you will see our academics, people who study t

lee high school and woodson high school. >>> dominion virginia power has a new way to inspect power lines. small aerial drones equipped with high-tech cameras will take to the skies for the power company. the utility company says the drones could one day replace helicopters used to inspect transmission lines. the drone's first test will be next month along virginia's eastern shore. >>> 5:21 our time right now. your weather and traffic on the 1s. how about we look outside. >> very nice out there. look at that. sun coming up. let's check in with storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. tom? >> erika, when you said the two words -- eastern shore, my mind went to the beach. and it's going to be great beach and pool weather here in the next couple of days although rather cool now. starting off early this morning with that clear sky. we saw that live view from the tower camera and temperatures are yeah, down near the upper 50s and 60s. rather cool for certainly late july. more like late september and that's also out of the mountains only in the upper 50s. closer to washington, it's generally nea

woodson institutes from 2011 to '13. we are very happy to have her here with us this morning at linfield to present her paper "hideously loaded: james baldwin's history of the american dream." please join me in welcoming her. [ applause ] >> good morning. i want to begin by thanking nick the students, the staff, and the faculty at linfield for the invitation to be here this week. and especially to thank nick for the chance -- giving me a chance to return to baldwin's words with a kind of intensity and focus that i had not had for some time. and it's a real gift. the american dream has been at the expense of the american negro. when james baldwin took to the podium to speak in favor of this proposition at the cambridge union in february 1965, he noted that the evening's question was hideously loaded. how was it hideous and in what way was it load snd to begin with baldwin began with whether he and william f. buckley could debate at all. for baldwin sparring appeared unlikely. much less like anything like conversation or d

work but other young adult writers, including rene watson who won not rene watson, but jacqueline woodson to won the national book award this past year. she and rene watson, another young adult writer were here in conversation talking about the work. >> has the publishing industry been responsive to those concerns? >> i think it is too early to tell. and i don't think it keep track in those numbers the way meyers did invested in that industry but i think we have a lot more work to do. this is the true of children of latino ancestry. there is continued reporting on the fact that a country that is becoming browner literally by the year where the majority population of younger people in this country are now today brac or brown that's already tipped over. we are not still seeing an explosion of literature to reflect their humanity. so we've got work to do. >> all right. what's next on our tour? >> we are going to head to our main exhibition hall and you will see representations of our fine art collection as well as our photography collection and manuscript collection. >> i've seen her name a

woodson and his folks that is really problematic if we want d.o.d. to be providers for us. >> i have to tell you my time is well past up so -- but this is the direction -- i would love to get a briefing going forward and if we could stay on top of that. thank you and i apologize to the chair. >> thank you, mr. coffman you are recognized. >> thank you mr. chair. secretary gibson, in march so what we are in effect talking about is the shortfall in the budget available for healthcare. >> correct. >> and so if you look at the v.a. historically i think initially it was for service connected issues for military personnel, not meets tested and then we expanded that to low income veterans on a means-tested basis. and then we expanded it again at some point to give automatic eligibility to our returning active duty leaving for civilian life, that is not meets tested. and i can't remember that is four or five years that they have eligibility. in march of this year v.a. announces it would no longer use the net worth or asset test to determine v.a.leithibility t

woodson institutes from 2011 to '13. we are very happy to have her here with us this morning at linfield to present her paper "hideously loaded: james baldwin's history of the american dream." please join me in welcoming her. [ applause ] >> good morning. i want to begin by thanking nick the students, the staff, and the faculty at linfield for the invitation to be here this week. and especially to thank nick for the chance -- giving me a chance to return to baldwin's words with a kind of intensity and focus that i had not had for some time. and it's a real gift. the american dream has been at the expense of the american negro. when james baldwin took to the podium to speak in favor of this proposition at the cambridge union in february 1965, he noted was hideously loaded. how was it hideous and in what way was it load snd to begin with baldwin began with whether he and william f. buckley could debate at all. for baldwin sparring appeared unlikely. much less like anything like conversation or democratic deliberation. beca