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Okemos schools votes to nix 'Chiefs' nickname, pick replacement by 2023


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OKEMOS  Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2024.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools  moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos  namesake, Chief Okemos. 
Superintendent John Hood was the most recent district leader to consider a name change for the district late last year. But discussions surrounding the nickname and mascot date at least to the mid-1990s, when Katie Cavanaugh, secretary for the Board of Education, was an Okemos High School student. ....

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'Chiefs' no more: Okemos school board votes to nix nickname; will adopt replacement by 2023


Chiefs no more: Okemos school board votes to nix nickname, adopt replacement by 2023
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The scoreboard and signage at Okemos High School s soccer field, seen April 29, 2021.
OKEMOS  Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2023.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools  moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos  namesake, Chief Okemos.  ....

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Okemos Schools Will Discontinue Using 'Chiefs' Nickname


The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted earlier this week to discontinue using the nickname Chiefs.
The Lansing State Journal says that decision comes after several students, alumni, and residents have commented that the nickname is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The school was named after Chief Okemos and has been since Katie Cavanaugh, a secretary for the Board of Education, was a student at Okemos High School in the 1990s.
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Cavanaugh told the Lansing State Journal that the nickname has always made her uncomfortable because it s offensive and gendered.
There have been some individuals who have expressed keeping the nickname as they thought it was a great way to honor American Indians and Chief Okemos. ....

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Okemos board votes to nix 'Chiefs' nickname, pick replacement by 2023


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OKEMOS  Okemos student-athletes will no longer compete as the Chiefs after district leaders cast a vote 30 years in the making.
The Okemos Public Schools Board of Education voted unanimously Monday to stop using the Chiefs nickname, which an increasing number of students, alumni and residents say is an offensive caricature of indigenous people.
The board hopes to adopt a new mascot by 2023.
The decision comes after decades of discussion surrounding Okemos Public Schools  moniker, which was picked for the town of Okemos  namesake, Chief Okemos. 
Superintendent John Hood was the most recent district leader to consider a name change late last year. But discussions surrounding the nickname and mascot date at least to the mid-1990s, when Katie Cavanaugh, secretary for the Board of Education, was an Okemos High School student. ....

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Okemos schools add in-person hours to maintain funding eligibility


LANSING  A change in state legislation forced Okemos Public Schools to increase in-person learning time or risk losing more than $1 million in COVID-19 relief funding. 
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law more than $2.5 billion in supplemental COVID-19 relief funding Tuesday, while vetoing another bill that would have prohibited the Department of Health and Human Services from restricting high school sports or barring in-person learning.
The bill that was vetoed contained language involving about $840 million in education funding, which was left unappropriated, according to Okemos Public Schools Finance Director Elizabeth Lentz.
To become eligible for funding  if and when the money becomes available   school districts must offer at least 20 hours of in-person learning per week for students by March 22. Okemos Superintendent John Hood said the March 22 date wasn’t added to the legislation until March 2, six days before Okemos schools began offering so ....

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