When Melissa Isaac began campaigning for re-election to the board of Mt. Pleasant Public Schools, it wasn't long before she noticed something was odd. Voters on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Indian Reservation had ballots that did not list their school district. Instead, their ballots listed Shepherd Public Schools.

Isaac called the township clerk's office to ask about the discrepancy, and after several conversations, was told that a correction would be made right away.

Read Neely Bardwell's reporting on this story at NativeNewsOnline.net.

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• Melissa Isaac, head of the Indigenous Education Initiative for the Michigan Department of Education; treasurer of the Mt. Pleasant Public School Board

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