HOUSTON – Critics of the Houston Independent School District’s board of education are pointing out that officials plan to rename schools with Confederate ties today, while supporting a school with alleged connections to terrorists.

A group of parents who oppose a new Arabic Immersion Magnet School believe district officials are sending contradictory messages by cutting out school names associated with Confederate figures because of the connection with slavery, while ignoring the same issue with the Arabic school, which is funded in part by the Qatar Foundation.

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“HISD is accepting money from the state that sponsors ISIS, that sponsors terror and slavery, and yet they are about to withdraw the school names of various Confederate heroes,” Elizabeth Theiss, founder of “Stop the Magnet” told the KTRH.

Other school districts are doing the same thing, she said.

“There were people who spoke out in the Tucson Unified School District about this Qatar association,” Theiss said. “Qatar also is operating in Austin to do the Arabic language as they did with Bellaire and Lee High School.”

The Qatar Foundation has faced allegations of actively funding Hamas, which many nations regard as a terrorist organization.

Last month, Houston school board trustee and reality television star Jolanda Jones belittled students from Lanier Middle School who came to a board meeting to express their opposition to their school’s forced name change.

Jones’ rant, which was caught on video, alleged she’s received emails from students who were allegedly bullied by other students because they support a name change, but parents submitted a public information request for Jones’ emails and exposed the loud-mouthed trustee as a liar, the Houston Press reports.

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“Obviously she is not aware of all the foul treatment of the Arabic slave trade, Islamic slave trade, that went on for centuries,” Theiss said.

Board members are expected to approve the name changes of seven district schools, including the current Lee High School, which is to be renamed Margaret Long Wisdom High School; the current Johnston Middle School, to be renamed Meyerland Performing and Visual Arts Middle School; the current Jackson Middle School, which will go by Yolanda Black Navarro Middle School of Excellence; and what’s now Reagan High School, which will turn into Heights High School; among others, according to the district website.

Stop the Magnet isn’t the only group opposed to the name changes.

Parents of Sydney Lanier Middle School also held a news conference Monday to protest the move on transparency and financial grounds.

“Parents claimed that Houston ISD is going against its own regulations by voting to rename the schools,” KPRC reports. “Parents said the district is failing to inform the public of how much the name changes will cost and where the money will come from.”

“We are hoping that on Thursday … that there’s going to be some remedial action that’s going to move this issue where it should be,” an unidentified parent told the news site. “Either a reconsideration, or take it off the table until you actually do your homework and fulfill your own requirements.”