Tag: Department of the Interior
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Indian Affairs: Key Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Health at Indian School Facilities
GAO-16-313, March 10 The Department of the Interior’s (Interior) Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs (Indian Affairs) lacks sound information on safety and health conditions of all Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) school facilities. Specifically, GAO found that Indian Affairs’ national information on safety and health deficiencies at schools is not complete and accurate because…
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Tribal School Wins Its Own Waiver From No Child Left Behind
An excerpt: A tribal school in Florida has been granted relief from the most onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind, making it the first tribal school in the nation to win its own waiver from the nation’s main federal education law. The Miccosukee Indian School joins more than 40 states that have already won…
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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,…
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BIE Consultation and Comments
The Bureau of lndian Education (BIE) will be conducting consultation meetings to obtain oral and written comments on the restructuring of the BIE. The consultation meetings are a continuation of tribal consultations conducted by the Department of the Interior and the Department of Education in 2014. DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document…