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After hearing on poor state of Indian schools, Rep. John Kline doesn't know whether to laugh or cry

WASHINGTON — Across the country, half the schools serving Indian students are dilapidated, and achievement rates among the students are lower than traditional public school kids, panelists told a U.S. House Education and Workforce Committee hearing Wednesday.

GOP Rep. John Kline, who chairs the committee, hosted the hearing after visiting Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High School on Leech Lake Indian Reservation in northern Minnesota earlier this month. The school is an old pole barn, with a leaky roof and foundation and such weak electrical cables and pipes that teachers can’t turn on all the electrical equipment at the same time.

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