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Valley school district land acknowledgement playing passes by 3-2 vote

Ann Adams speaks during the Chandler Unified Governing Board’s Sept. 9 regular meeting. After about 30 public speakers and a long board discussion, the board voted, 3-2, to read the district’s land acknowledgement at the start of board meetings and graduation ceremonies.

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Phoenix Union High School District Governing Board Ward 4 member Ceyshe Napa speaks during the Chandler Unified Governing Board’s Sept. 9 regular meeting. After about 30 public speakers and a long board discussion, the board voted, 3-2, to read the district’s land acknowledgement at the start of board meetings and graduation ceremonies.

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Chandler Unified Governing Board member Ryan Heap speaks during a Sept. 9 regular meeting. Heap, who was among the minority in the board’s 3-2 vote to read the district’s land acknowledgement at the start of board meetings and graduation ceremonies, asked rhetorically where such statements would stop, saying “Do we have an Irish month, and do we have an Anglo-Saxon month?”

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Almost 30 public speakers and a 20-minute board discussion preceded a 3-2 Chandler Unified Governing Board vote on one of the action items at its Sept. 9 meeting.

The final vote was then followed by a loud ovation.

CUSD will, going forward, have land acknowledgment at the start of each board meeting and graduation ceremony, primarily acknowledging the indigenous tribes and cultures that preceded American settlers in the East Valley in recent centuries.

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