MI SB0876

Replaces "shall" with "must" throughout section 1278 for mandatory curriculum language requirements.

Adds requirement that state board model core academic curriculum content standards encompass only academic and cognitive instruction, explicitly excluding attitudes, beliefs, or value systems not essential to legal, economic, and social structures.

Strongly encourages state board to ensure recommended model core academic curriculum content standards for history grades 8-12 include learning objectives concerning Indian boarding schools.

Defines "Indian boarding schools" as entities that forcefully relocated Indigenous children from families to distant residential facilities to suppress their American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian identities, languages, and beliefs.

Includes legislative intent recognizing that Indigenous children in boarding schools suffered physical, sexual, cultural, and spiritual abuse; lost lives due to neglect and disease; and experienced trauma for speaking native languages.