Category: Budget
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NYT: Decades of Neglect Show Starkly as Indian Schools Cry Out for Repairs
Here. An excerpt: BENA, Minn. — When temperatures drop and snow falls, students bundle themselves in heavy coats inside Marlene Stately’s classroom. Winter comes early and bites hard on this Indian reservation in northern Minnesota, and the pole barn that houses part of the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School offers limited protection from the elements. “I think we…
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GAO: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending
The U.S. Government Accountability Office published and released GAO-15-121, a Report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives entitled Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending. The highlights can be seen here. The actual report can be seen here. From the highlights: What GAO Found Unlike…
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HuffPo Live:How The Feds Are Failing Native American Children
Here is the newsclip from Huffington Post Live, with interviews of Chase Iron Eyes of Last Real Indians and Carri Jones, Chairwoman of Leach Lake Band of Ojibwe.
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Red Lake News: Tribe welcomes Sen. Tester and Sen. Franken
From Indianz.com here. An excerpt: “We need money for education, this is vital for economic development and jobs,” said Seki. “All these issues are related. “Little Rock Representative Richard Barrett brought up the need for housing saying that he knows of a family of 12 people living in one-bedroom home. “We need money for Indian…
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Interior Announces $1.2 Million to Be Awarded to Tribes to Take Control, Operate Their Bureau of Indian Education-Funded Schools
Here is the press release. An excerpt: “Increasing tribal control over BIE-funded schools not only promotes tribal self-determination, but also provides greater tribal discretion in determining what American Indian children should learn, increasing accountability throughout the school system,” Secretary Jewell said. “With school management authority, these communities will have more power to create lessons with…
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Department of Education Consultation on Native Youth Initiative- Oct. 23 Webinar
The Department of Education will conduct a tribal consultation webinar on Thursday, October 23, 2014 and in person Wednesday, October 29, 2014 on the discretionary grant option for FY 2015 that would fund culturally-relevant, place-based strategies that are designed to improve the educational and life outcomes for children and youth in tribal communities. Recognizing the…