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Category: Budget

  • AIGC: Cobell Scholars Application Now Open

    Here. An excerpt: We are happy to announce the opening of the Cobell Scholars Program scholarship application. The American Indian Graduate Center will manage the Cobell Scholars Program which was established as a result of the Cobell v. Salazarlitigation.  The Cobell Scholars Program is intended to provide financial assistance in the form of scholarships to…

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  • Applications for New Awards; State Tribal Education Partnership Program

    On April 16, 2015, the Department of Education published in the Federal Register a notice inviting applications for the 2015 State Tribal Education Partnerships (STEP) program. The new competition officially opens on Thursday, April 16, 2015 and closes on June 15, 2015. Notices of intent to apply must be received by May 21, 2015. The…

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  • Troubled school construction project moves forward

    Here, from Indianz.com.  An excerpt: LAME DEER, Mont. –– If all goes as planned under new approach to a Lame Deer Elementary School expansion project funded by Impact Aid, students at Northern Cheyenne will start next school year in new classrooms, dine in a new cafeteria and their parents will be assured that their children…

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  • Via Alaska Dispatch News: Hometown U: Tribal Schools in Alaska

    Kathleen McCoy, Anchorage, AK, writes about the struggles of Indigenous students in the public school system in Alaska and how UAA’s Center for Alaska Education Policy Research (CAEPR) and the Alaska Native Policy Center at First Alaskans Institute (FAI) will explore with indigenous Alaskans what an ideal education system would look like. Ms. McCoy interviewed…

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  • Cherokees give more than $4 million in car tag revenue to area schools

    From Tulsa World, here.  An excerpt: CATOOSA — Cherokee Nation officials handed out more than $4 million in car-tag revenue funds to area school districts Friday as part of its annual Public School Appreciation Day at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tulsa. Each year, the tribe allocates 38 percent of the revenue generated by its…

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  • TEDNA Executive Director Quinton Roman Nose Testifies at House Interior Appropriations Sub-Committee

    Here is Quinton with Representative McCollum from Minnesota, who is on the Committee.  You can see Quinton’s testimony here.

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