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Education | Renaming Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is subject of meeting | Seattle Times Newspaper

Education | Renaming Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is subject of meeting | Seattle Times Newspaper

Renaming Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary is subject of meeting

Seattle Public Schools officials will host an hourlong community meeting at Brighton Elementary School, 6725 45th Ave. S., at 7 p.m. April 6, to discuss a proposal to change the school's name to Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.
Seattle Public Schools officials will host an hourlong community meeting at Brighton Elementary School, 6725 45th Ave. S., at 7 p.m. April 6, to discuss a proposal to change the school's name to Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School.
When the former Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary building on East Republican Street in Seattle's Madison Valley was closed in 2006 due to shrinking enrollment, the school district made a commitment to rename another school to honor the slain civil-rights leader. Brighton is in South Seattle.