Category: Discussion
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ICT – Interior Secretary Jewell Discusses Native Education at Laguna Pueblo
Here. And an excerpt: U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said her December 11 visit to Laguna Pueblo Elementary School in New Mexico was her “first opportunity to see an Indian school directly,” reported the Albuquerque Journal. She and a number of others, including Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn, were meeting to help…
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ED Week: Budget Deal Could Offer School Districts Relief from Sequestration
Here. A quote: School districts would get some relief from the across-the-board cuts known as sequestration under an agreement announced Tuesday by a bipartisan pair of House and Senate negotiators. The plan would roll back most of the so-called sequester cuts for the next two years, leaving the door open for federal lawmakers to boost spending on…
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New Scholarship on Montana Indian Students and the “Prison Pipeline”
From Turtle Talk: Melina Angelos Healey has published “The School-to-Prison Pipeline Tragedy on Montana’s American Indian Reservations” in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change. Here is the description: American Indian adolescents in Montana are caught in a school-to-prison pipeline. They are plagued with low academic achievement, high dropout, suspension and expulsion rates, and disproportionate…
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NCAI: Update on the Murray-Ryan Budget Deal and the Trust Responsibility
From NCAI: On December 10, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Patty Murray (D-WA) and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced that they reached a budget agreement, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013, that would cover FY 2014 and FY 2015 and includes a partial reduction of sequestration cuts. The budget conference committee is responsible…
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Throwback Thursday
Here is our Executive Director Quinton Roman Nose’s State of Indian Education from 2012. We are definitely not going that far back for this one.
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INTERIOR SECRETARY JEWELL & ASSISTANT SEC. WASHBURN TO VISIT LAGUNA PUEBLO
The article is here from Native News Online. An excerpt: On Wednesday, December 11, as part of the Obama Administration’s commitment to strengthen education for Native youth, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Kevin Washburn will visit New Mexico to tour a Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) tribally controlled grant school…