Don't let rundown Indian schools fall victim to congressional gridlock

The national spotlight on northern Minnesota’s dilapidated Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig High School over the past year has yielded something all too rare in today’s polarized political age: common ground.

In congressional hearings focusing on the plight of the Bug school and other deteriorating Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools across the nation, Republican and Democratic lawmakers strongly agreed that conditions at these schools are unacceptable. Minnesota’s delegation — in particular, Republican Rep. John Kline, Democratic Reps. Betty McCollum and Rick Nolan, and Democratic Sen. Al Franken — merit praise for leading the charge. Republican Rep. Tom Cole has been a standout advocate for BIE schools as well.

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