JERSEY CITY — On Thursday a majority of the Jersey City Board of Education voted to name School 20, a school for pre-K students through fifth graders, after famed poet Maya Angelou. However, the measure will require one more vote in the future.
But Assemblywoman Angela McKnight of Jersey City had advocated for the last three months for the board to name the school after Pres. Barack Obama instead, said a story on Friday in NJ.com.
School officials said they had been planning to name the school for Angelou, a respected African-American poet who died in 2014, for a year.
The school is located on Danforth Avenue.
Jersey City school board will likely name school for Angelou, not Obama
