A proposal by Ald Sharon Beloin-Saavedra (R-1) to give the City Council control over the naming of schools, along with city buildings, was voted down Tuesday evening in the Council Committee on Planning, Zoning and Housing.
In speaking against the proposal, Ald Wilma Barbosa (D-3) asked, about Beloin-Saavedra, “wasn’t her name in the running for the renaming of the Brookside,” school. In September, the Board of Education named the Brookside Extension school after popular former Slade Middle School Principal Geraldine Brown-Springer.
“I find this a little too coincidental,” Barbosa added. “What are her motives?”…