Tag: South Dakota

• “Know Before ‘U’ Go”

  Know Before “U” Go is a college preparation program designed by the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC). The program teaches about post-secondary education, financial aid, and scholarships for the upcoming fall of 2016. They will have two locations set up. The first location is in Seattle, Washington in October and the second location in Rapid…

  sydneywahkinney

  August 25, 2016

  Announcement, Education, Native American Student Program, Uncategorized

  Education, Graduation, Native American, South Dakota, TEDNA, Washington

• Via Indian Country Today: Couple in Murder-Suicide Linked to Alleged Scam Embezzling Native Education Money

  An excerpt: Six months after a South Dakota couple died in a murder-suicide, Attorney General Marty Jackley said they stole money meant to improve college readiness among Native American students. “There has been a loss or a theft of over $1 million,” Jackley said during a March 16 press conference. Scott Westerhuis allegedly killed his…

  March 18, 2016

  Article, Legal

  American Indian Institute for Innovation, College Readiness for Native American Students, Dan Guericke, GEAR UP, Marty Jackley, Mid-Central Education Cooperative, Scott Westerhuis, South Dakota, Stacy Phelps, Stephanie Hubers

• From The Rapid City Journal: Adding Native American Education Part of State Ed Plan

  PIERRE | For the first time in South Dakota, courses about Native Americans will be among the required subjects schools must teach. The state Board of Education adjusted the schedule for reviewing teaching standards Thursday and added Native American education for all as a subject for the first time. The revised schedule still calls for…

  January 12, 2016

  Uncategorized

  Common Core, Education Secretary Melody Schopp, Native American Education, South Dakota

• Throwback Thursday

  Today’s throwback is about a discrimination lawsuit against a South Dakota School District that was settled in 2007.  The case was Antoine v. Winner School District, which the ACLU and Rosebud Sioux Tribe prosecuted.  A snippet from the ACLU website: In March of 2006, the ACLU’s Racial Justice Program, ACLU of the Dakotas and Attorney General…

  Matthew Campbell

  December 19, 2013

  Article, Discussion, Throwback Thursday

  ACLU, American Civil Liberties Union, Native American, Rosebud Indian Reservation, South Dakota

• ED Week – Education in Indian Country: Obstacles and Opportunity

  Here is an in depth series on Native Education. An excerpt: On most measures of educational success, Native American students trail every other racial and ethnic subgroup of students. To explore the reasons why, Education Week sent a writer, a photographer, and a videographer to American Indian reservations in South Dakota and California earlier this fall. Their work…

  Matthew Campbell

  December 4, 2013

  Announcement, Article, Discussion, Reports

  California, Education, Education Week, Native American, South Dakota

• Language summit draws tribes from across Nation

  Here, from Indianz and Native Sun News.  A quote:  In the foothills of the sacred Black Hills, the Lakota/Dakota/Nakota language was not only examined and researched in an academic manner, but it was celebrated by the participants of the 6th Annual Tusweca Tiyospaye Language Summit. Held at the Ramkota Hotel, the language summit drew people…

  Matthew Campbell

  November 27, 2013

  Article, Discussion

  Linguistics, Oceti Sakowin, Social Sciences, South Dakota