By Janet Goetze
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McDaniel High School not only has an updated building at 2735 N.E.82nd Ave. in the Madison South neighborhood, but also a new name. Students asked for a change from James Madison High, recalling the country’s fourth president and co-writer of the constitution, because he was a slave owner. In February, the school board approved the new name, Leodis V. McDaniel, honoring a man who was a beloved principal during the 1980s.
When McDaniel students return to their modernized school on Sept. 1, light will be streaming through the large windows that reveal the surrounding community and natural sites in the distance, said Principal Adam Skyles.
“It changes the atmosphere of the whole place,” said Skyles, who arrived at the former Madison High in 2010 and has been with the…
