Category: Legal
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NYT’s Student Writing Contest – Submissions Due March 17
Here. An excerpt: With this, our first-ever Student Editorial Contest, we’re asking you to channel that enthusiasm into something a little more formal: short, evidence-based persuasive essays like the editorials The New York Times publishes every day. The challenge is pretty straightforward. Choose a topic you care about, gather evidence from both New York Times and non-New…
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Turtle Talk: Federal Court Holds Tribal Courts May Adjudicate Claims against On-Rez Public Schools in North Dakota
Here. Here are the materials in Belcourt Public School District v. Davis (D. N.D.): 19 Belcourt Motion for Summary J 19-6 TMAC Appellate Decision 26 Defendants Response 27 Belcourt Reply 33 DCT Order And here is the opinion in Fort Yates Public School District #4 v. Murphy (D. N.D.): 40 DCT Order
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Civil rights office opens investigation into discrimination allegations at Loleta school
From The Times-Standard, here. An excerpt: An attorney for the National Center for Youth Law said the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights has opened an investigation into allegations of ongoing racial discrimination against Native America students by staff in the Loleta Union School District. The center and the American Civil Liberties Union…
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Turtle Talk: New Scholarship by Ann Piccard: “Death by Boarding School”
Here, and the law review article can be seen here. A summary: There is a special kind of racism in this country against Native Americans, and it is the “last acceptable racism.” The author of that poignantly accurate description of most Americans’ attitudes towards Native Americans, who is both a Native American and a Jew,…
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Education Laws Overdue for Renewal Languish in Congress
From Ed Week here. A quote: As the 113th Congress returns for its second year, nearly every major education law remains overdue for reauthorization, leaving issues from early childhood to workforce development caught in a vortex of partisan rancor. Education advocates are fearful that Congress—which triggered the government shutdown late last year and has a…
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President Obama Nominated the Very First Native American Woman For Federal Judge
This historic nomination can be seen here. He also renominated her after the break, as can be seen here. This shows the importance of education as we need more Natives in Judgeship positions to provide a different view point in the form of Judicial Opinions.