Interesting...* Of almost 3,000 public schools in Florida, five honor George Washington, compared with eleven named after manatees.
* In the last two decades, a public school built in Arizona was almost fifty times more likely to be named after such things as a mesa or a cactus than after a president.
* Today, a majority of all public school districts nationwide do not have a single school named after a president.
But does it really matter to a school's educational mission what name the school bears? Well, Jay P. Greene, Brian Kisida, and Jonathan Butcher think so. And I'm betting that their insightful article in City Journal, "Four Score and Seven Manatees Ago," will convince you too.
