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Former Red Lake School District superintendent Brent Gish will testify during a U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee oversight hearing on American Indian education. Gish, of Naytahwaush, is now the executive director of the National Indian Impacted Schools Association, which represents schools on Indian lands. Across the nation, Native American students trail every other racial and ethnic subgroup of students on most measures of educational success. Minnesota is no different. The state has the lowest on-time high-school graduation rate for...
Washington – More than 1,000 miles from Capitol Hill, Karen Diver says her people are bearing the brunt of Congress' budget battles as federal budget cuts ravage funding for schools and health care on Minnesota's tribal reservations. With Republicans and Democrats engaged in talks to minimize or reorder the broad sequestration spending cuts that began in March, pessimistic American Indian leaders are prepping for another round of reductions. During a recent three-day lobbying push in W...
Students on reservations are being affected earlier than most. Head Start, adult education programs expect reduced funding. WASHINGTON – Schools on Minnesota’s American Indian reservations are already suffering from the across-the-board budget cuts of the federal sequester, taking a hit months before the rest of the country’s classrooms will feel the effects of reduced funding. The White Earth Reservation could cut the school year short at its federally funded tribal school. The Red Lake Schoo...
WASHINGTON - Congress is moving towards repaying a multi-million dollar debt to northern Minnesota's Indian tribes more than 100 years after the U.S. government and frontiersman bilked them in land and timber deals. At least one Indian band remains unhappy with the plan, however and is threatening a lawsuit to stop the payout. The U.S. House approved a $28 million payment to six Chippewa bands, a plan that would grant $300 each to more than 40,000 Chippewa members. The remaining $16 million would be split among the governments of the six bands...
More than 2,000 freshmen started high school in the Minneapolis School District this week, beginning their journey toward graduation in the Class of 2015. Half of them won't make it, if the current trend holds steady. The district's on-time graduation rate may appear to be 73 percent, but that is based on a formula that allows students six years or more to graduate. Looking at the number of students who make it from freshmen to seniors in four years, the graduation rate was a much lower 49 percent for the Class of 2010. Graduation rates for...
