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The State Board of Education introduced a resolution Tuesday that would recommend 12 schools across Michigan drop Native American mascots, team names and other imagery.

“I could taste his blood. So much blood. It was all over me. It took me a long time, months, almost a year to get the taste of Tate’s blood out of my mouth.”

“I’m going to be the next school shooter,” Oxford High School shooter Ethan Crumbley said in a self-made video the night before he fatally shot four students in November 2021.

Seniority would play a role in deciding which classes K-12 instructors can teach, while discipline would become a subject of collective bargaining under legislation that passed the House Tuesday afternoon on a strictly party-line vote.

Rep. Carrie A. Rheingans (D-Ann Arbor) said she plans to keep fighting to include student athletes in collective bargaining with her legislation, after Sen. Jeff Irwin (D-Ann Arbor) removed the same provision from his version of the legislation to restore unionization rights to student employees.