Kline pushes Bureau of Indian Education director to fix Bug school

WASHINGTON -- Rep. John Kline pushed a top Interior Department official Thursday to move the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School in northern Minnesota up the national list of dilapidated Indian schools to fix.

The school in northern Minnesota is an old, drafty pole barn with electrical and structural problems -- not to mention rodents. Kline visited the school last month with Rep. Rick Nolan.

Thursday's hearing was the second one Kline, the chairman of the House Education and Workforce Committee, held on the state of Indian education. This time he invited Obama administration officials to explain why so little has been done to improve the conditions in Indian schools, including the Bug school up on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation.

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