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Category: Reports

  • From Where the Sun Rises: Addressing the Educational Achievement of Native Americans in Washington State

    The report, entitled “From Where the Sun Rises: Addressing the Educational Achievement of Native Americans in Washington State,” while from 2008, might be of interest to TEDNA Members. The report can be seen here: Snapshot Executive Summary Extended Executive Summary Completed Report If those links do not work . . . it is available at…

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  • FY 2015 Omnibus Budget Bill – Exciting News for Tribal Education Agencies and Departments 

    On Tuesday evening, House and Senate appropriators released the FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill (HR 83), which will fund TEAs through Department  of Interior for the first time. Here is the BIA section of the Interior explanatory statement. On page 24, it provides that: Education.- The agreement includes $2,000,000 for the development and operation of tribal departments or…

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  • 2014 Native Youth Report – Executive Office of the President

    Here is the White House 2014 Native Youth Report. An excerpt from the Root Causes of Disparities in Native Educational Attainment: Continued Lack of Genuine Tribal Control: Historically, states that have Indian lands within their geographic boundaries have not been required, or even encouraged, to collaborate with tribes in operating schools. Public education, which serves the vast…

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  • Wash Po: Native American kids need more protection, advisory panel tells Holder in new report

    Here, and an excerpt: A panel of Indian-country experts will recommend to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Tuesday that tribes be allowed to criminally prosecute non-Indians who sexually or physically abuse Native American children on tribal land, saying that juveniles on reservations are living with “dire” levels of violence and poverty. The recommendation…

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  • GAO: Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending

    The U.S. Government Accountability Office published and released GAO-15-121, a Report to the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives entitled Bureau of Indian Education Needs to Improve Oversight of School Spending.  The highlights can be seen here. The actual report can be seen here.  From the highlights: What GAO Found Unlike…

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  • TEDNA 2013-2014 Annual Report

    Here is TEDNA’s 2013-2014 Annual Report.  An excerpt: On September 16, 2014, Joel Williams from the Native American Rights Fund (“NARF”) and Quinton Roman Nose, TEDNA’s Executive Director, hosted a congressional briefing in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the TEDNA Congressional Briefing is generally to enlighten the staff of Senators’ and Representatives’ offices as to what Tribal…

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