Category: Legal
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Via Indian Country Today: Couple in Murder-Suicide Linked to Alleged Scam Embezzling Native Education Money
An excerpt: Six months after a South Dakota couple died in a murder-suicide, Attorney General Marty Jackley said they stole money meant to improve college readiness among Native American students. “There has been a loss or a theft of over $1 million,” Jackley said during a March 16 press conference. Scott Westerhuis allegedly killed his…
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Via TurtleTalk: Supreme Court Oral Argument Transcript in Dollar General
Transcript available here. Here are some interesting passages: Justice Sotamayor (questioning counsel for Dollar General at p 10): States appoint judges. Sometimes they’re elected, but often they’re appointed. We don’t think it lacks being a neutral forum because the State can sue a citizen there. We think of it as neutral because the judges are neutral.…
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2015 NCAI Resolutions
TEDNA sponsored two resolutions that passed at NCAI’s Annual Convention in San Diego last month. The first was a resolution calling on the Department of Education to utilize its authority under 20 U.S.C. § 1232g(b)(1)(C) and 34 C.F.R. § 99.31(a)(3)(iii) to exempt tribes and TEAs from FERPA’s advance consent requirement by designating TEAs as the Secretary of…
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Lessons Sought on Serving Native American Students
Here, from Ed Week. An excerpt: The Council of Chief State School Officers is looking to a small-scale Montana program for help in reversing the fortunes of hundreds of thousands of American Indian children. Despite federal attempts to raise the profile of the challenges that Native American students face, they are often an afterthought, said…