Two weeks ago, Ohio State Board of Education President Laura Kohler voted against repealing an anti-racist resolution. On Friday, she plans to resign after the Republican-controlled Ohio Senate indicated it would not confirm her reappointment to the board. "I was aware there would be consequences ...," Kohler said in an interview. "I'm a Republican. I knew it was a controversial vote." But she believed strongly that the board of education and other state entities must address inequities in schools and was trying to make that happen.