Folger explained the delay in getting to Elvehjem and Lindbergh by saying that the process last school year to pick a name for the former Southside Elementary — now Lori Mann Carey Elementary — took longer than expected.
“We are now on track to start the process for two schools this year,” he said.
According to emails from district officials to the organizer of the Lindbergh proposal, Betsy Abramson, the district was looking at starting the name-change process for Lindbergh earlier this year but later moved that date to this month.
Abramson said she knows that changing the name of the school isn’t the most important item on the district’s agenda, but the reasons for the delay haven’t been made clear to her.
“At this point, I’m very frustrated at the length of the process,” she said.
Elvehjem staff members submitted the proposal to rename that school after Stephanie A. Bernard, a Black former Madison schools teacher who died in August 2022.