Tag: 2016 fiscal budget

• Via Edweek.org: Stakes High for Bureau of Indian Education’s Overhaul

  An excerpt: A U.S. Senate report from 1969 describes the federal government’s failure to provide an effective education for Native American children as a “national tragedy and a national disgrace” that has “condemned the [American Indian] to a life of poverty and despair.” Nearly 50 years later, little has changed, in the view of advocates,…

  June 1, 2015

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  2016 fiscal budget, BIE, budget gap, Bureau of Indian Education, Department of the Interior, DOI, Government Accountability Office, lack of funding, tribally run school