Board votes to create Barack Obama Academy

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice | March 28, 2009 

Thought the 44th president hasn’t yet completed his first 100 days in office, a school board in California, at the request of students, has voted to rename its facility, making it reportedly the first middle school in the country named after Barack Obama.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that several students from Oakland’s Alternative Learning Community public school waited for hours at a meeting of the school board to petition board members for the name change.

The small school of 35 students, which opened in 2007 and enrolls primarily African American and low-income students, will be known in the future as the Barack Obama Academy.

“To graduate from Barack Obama Academy (BOA) means I am part of history in the making, and I want to be a part of history,” eighth-grader Mikela Mosely said in a statement released by the district earlier this week. “This is an inspiration to me and for many generations to come.”


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