Category: Legal
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Transcript from Tribal Consultation regarding Education in May of 2013.
Here is the transcript from the Tribal Consultation and Listening Session that the Department of Education held in the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel Conference on May 13, 2013.
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Title VII placed back in to H.R. 5, the Student Success Act
The Young-Gabbard-Hanabusa-McCollum Amendment passed the House and placed Title VII, and therefore Indian Education programs and funding, back into the House’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act Re-authorization. This was a large push and we are thankful to everyone that assisted in pushing to keep Indian Education in the House’s bill.
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An important message from NIEA regarding H.R. 5, the Student Success Act
Please call and write letters to your congressional leaders today to protect the trust responsibility to Native education. Yesterday, Representatives Don Young (R-AK) and Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) filed a bipartisan amendment to the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) to preserve Native education as a stand-alone title under current law. The U.S. House of Representatives is…
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Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Education Roundtable
On July 10th, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be hosting a Roundtable on Indian education. The Committee is interested in hearing recommendations for improving educational opportunities for Indian students.
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H.R. 5
The Student Success Act, H.R. 5, was reported out of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce on June 19, 2013. This is the House of Representative’s re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (“ESEA”). Notably, Indian Education, which is in Title VII of the current ESEA, has been removed and replaced into Title…
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NM Delegation Introduces Bill to Improve Tribal Education
The New Mexico Delegation has introduced a Bill in the House of Representatives and the Senate to improve Indian education. The Senate Bill can be seen here. The House version can be seen here. TEDNA will hopefully have some analysis in the near future of these identical bills.