Tag: Department of Interior

• Via PBS.org: How safe are Bureau of Indian Education Schools?

  An excerpt: Thousands of children attend schools operated by the federal Bureau of Indian Education, and for years, no one has known for sure if the buildings where they learn, eat and sleep are safe. That’s one finding from a recent report issued by the Government Accountability Office that has shaken the bureau, which oversees…

  April 18, 2016

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  Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, BIE, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Indian Education, Charles Roessel, Department of Interior, Failed Inspections, GAO, Government Accountability Office, Lawrence Roberts, Missed Annual Inspections, Office of the Inspector General, Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Indian Affairs

• Eight Tribes Receive Nearly $2.5 Million in Grants; Funds Help Tribes Take Control of Own Educational Programs

  WASHINGTON, D.C. – Eight federally recognized tribes will collectively receive nearly $2.5 million in grant awards from the U.S. Departments of Education and Interior to bolster their educational programs and advance self-determination goals through the development of academically rigorous and culturally relevant programs. William Mendoza, director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and…

  November 6, 2015

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  BIE Blueprint, Blueprint for Reform, Bureau of Indian Education, Charles Monty Roessel, Department of Education, Department of Interior, Gen-I, Generation Indigenous, STEP, White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, William Mendoza