Senators want accurate count of Native students

Three U.S. senators have accused the Bureau of Indian Education of using severely outdated data to determine distribution of Johnson-O’Malley funds, and have introduced legislation requiring the U.S. Department of the Interior to update its records and the BIE to recalculate the distribution.

According to senators Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Steve Daines (R-Mont.), the BIE is currently basing its distribution on demographic data from 1995. Since then, two U.S. Censuses have taken place, with the last one — in 2010 — finding the country’s Native American population had increased by nearly one-third since 2000.

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