Category: Politics
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Sources: House and Senate Negotiators Have Reached Preliminary ESEA Deal
UPDATED Christmas seems to have come early this year for education advocates. After weeks of long and hard negotiations, House and Senate lawmakers have reached preliminary agreement on a bill for the long-stalled re-authorization of the No Child Left Behind Act, multiple sources say. The agreement will set the stage for an official conference committee,…
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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…
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S. 986: Albuquerque Indian School Land Transfer Act
A BILL To require the Secretary of the Interior to take into trust 4 parcels of Federal land for the benefit of certain Indian Pueblos in the State of New Mexico. Last Action: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. Explanation: This bill was passed by Congress…
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Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe Sues Interior over Bureau of Indian Education Reorganization
From Turtle Talk, here. An excerpt: Here is the complaint in Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe v. Jewell (D. S.D.): 1 Complaint An excerpt: Plaintiff, an Indian Tribe operating under grants from or contracts with the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs under the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (Public Laws 93-638 and 100-297, as amended),…
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NATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL ON INDIAN EDUCATION MEETING SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Here. The National Advisory Council on Indian Education have scheduled a teleconference meetng for September 25, 2015. The notice was published in the September 14 Federal Register located here: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-09-14/pdf/2015-22891.pdf. The purpose of the meeting is to convene the Council to conduct the following business: (1) Final discussion, review and approval of the annual report…