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custom or tradition and that is used as a mascot, nickname, logo, letterhead or team name of the school.” Meanwhile, California’s 2015 law disallows using the Washington Football Team’s ...
139, a bill that would bar schools from having a “name, symbol, or image” that refers to a Native American tribe, person, custom or tradition ... former mascot of Rutland High School, the ...
MONTPELIER — The Senate Education Committee considered how best to address problematic school mascots on Tuesday. The committee heard testimony from both local Indigenous and state education leaders ...
It would restrict school districts from using “names, symbols, or images that depicts or refers to an American Indian Tribe, individual, custom, or tradition to be used as a mascot, nickname ...
The winners were promised a pizza party with the mascot, custom shirts indicating they named the mascot and recognition in the school hallways. Students were also surprised with a live mascot ...
Earlier administrations investigated whether Native American school mascots were discriminatory. The Trump administration ...
She filmed it and sent a videotape to some like-minded community members on a Facebook page and spoke at local school board meetings calling for the Red Raider mascot to be retired. In the four ...
One of the oldest campuses in Orange County, Fullerton Union High School has since retired “Willie Ugh,” a student mascot clad in Native American garb, and introduced a buffalo mascot ...
Advocates are asking the state to impose a ban of Indigenous American imagery in public school mascots, a move that would force at least 23 schools to retire their Native American mascots.