Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)
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The Regular School Board Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 3 PM at the Administration Building, has been RESCHEDULED because of Red Lake Tribal Elections on this day. The Regular School Board Meeting will be held on Monday, May 23, 2016 at 3 PM....
The first attempt by the “nation’s report card” to measure students’ ability to think creatively and use technology found wide racial achievement gaps — and evidence that schools aren’t effectively teaching important skills. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, has long been the only way to compare student test scores in math and reading across states. In 2014, amid growing calls for testing to go beyond basic academic skills, the group added a new exam to measure students’ “technology and engineering literacy,” or t...
The Obama administration has put the nation's school districts on notice that prohibiting transgender students from using the restrooms and locker rooms that match their gender identity is a violation of federal law. That issue has stirred sharp debate as schools, districts, and state legislatures have considered policies that would restrict such access on the basis of biological sex. The order on facilities access is part of a broader list of obligations federal officials said districts have to their transgender students, detailed in the...
A majority of Americans in a new poll say they oppose President Obama’s order telling schools to allow transgender students to use the bathroom corresponding with their gender identity, rather than biological sex. Fifty-one percent of adults said they are against the decision, compared to 33 percent who are in favor and 16 percent who are undecided, according to a Rasmussen Reports survey released on Tuesday. Parents of elementary and secondary school children are even more opposed to the mandate, which puts federal education dollars at risk f...
CHESTER, Vt. — The way A J Jackson tells it, he kept his head ducked down and pretended to fiddle with his cellphone as he walked into the boys’ bathroom and headed for a stall at Green Mountain Union High School here. But the way some of his classmates see it, A J was still Autumn Jackson, a girl in boys’ clothing, who had violated an intimate sanctum, while two boys were standing at a urinal, their private parts exposed. “It’s like me going into a girls’ bathroom wearing a wig,” Tanner Bischofberger, 15, a classmate of A J Jackson’s, wh...
Black, Latino, and Native American males face a complex web of circumstances that can explain why they are overrepresented among students with low grades, low test scores, and a high incidence of disciplinary problems, according to a new report from the Urban Institute. Relying heavily on student interviews, the report, titled "Aiming Higher," paints a portrait of a socially vulnerable group of students facing a systemic predicament, beginning at birth, that puts them at "risk for underperformance in school and life." http:/...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six decades after the Supreme Court outlawed separating students by race, stubborn disparities persist in how the country educates its poor and minority children. A report Tuesday by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office found deepening segregation of black and Hispanic students at high-poverty K-12 public schools. These schools often offered fewer math, science and college prep classes, while having disproportionally higher rates of students who were held back in ninth grade, suspended or expelled....
WORTHINGTON, Minn. -- A judge Monday handed a Balaton, Minn., man two life prison sentences, plus an additional 15 years in prison, for the April 2015 murders of an elderly Balaton couple and the arson of their rural farm home. Derek Michael Hexum, 21, was originally facing 10 charges for the killing of James and Catherine Hively. He pleaded guilty in March in Lyon County District Court to two counts of first-degree murder while committing burglary, first-degree burglary, first-degree arson and second-degree arson. http://ww...
With less than a week to go, the Minnesota legislative session deadlocked Tuesday after House Republicans offered a new proposal on transportation, taxes and millions of dollars in new construction projects. “We are prepared to meet the governor in the middle, and agree on a plan that addresses Minnesota’s $6 billion need for road and bridge funding over the next decade,” said House Speaker Kurt Daudt, R-Crown. http://www.startribune.com/mn-house-republicans-offer-their-own-road-plan-includes-100-million-in-car-tab-fees/3798...
A woman who lives near Sebeka, Minn., found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time Friday evening when she went outside to call in her dogs and was attacked by a black bear, possibly protecting its cubs. Catherine Hanson, 59, of Meadow Township, about 12 miles northeast of Sebeka, was still recovering from her injuries Tuesday and didn’t want to talk to any members of the media, said Wadena County Chief Deputy Joe Schoon. http://www.startribune.com/bear-attacks-woman-at-her-home-near-sebeka-minn/379896171/...
Sometimes you post something on social media before you really give it a second thought (or a first fact-check). We’ve all been there. So we can relate to whoever is running ESPN’s Facebook account. In teasing to a Bill Barnwell offseason report card story (Vikings get an A-minus, by the way), ESPN asserted that, “The Green Bay Packers are defending NFC North champs. The Minnesota Vikings’ offseason could change that.” As of the publication of this post, it was still live. http://www.startribune.com/espn-says-packers-won-nfc...
With just days until his high school graduation, a Minnesota student was suspended Monday for displaying a Confederate flag on school grounds, and his participation in Friday’s commencement ceremony was questioned. But after an early-morning protest Tuesday in his support and a meeting between the family and school officials, senior Cody Nelson was back in class and will graduate with his classmates Friday night. http://www.startribune.com/high-school-senior-suspended-for-displaying-confederate-flag-causes-ruckus-up-north/37...
A few fiddle tunes and a bit of jazz provided an unlikely soundtrack outside St. Paul School District headquarters Tuesday as more than 150 people rallied in hopes of saving music, art and other electives from cuts in 2016-17. The state’s second-largest district faces a $15.1 million shortfall next school year, and one of the cost-saving measures being considered is a reduction in art, music, language and other programming in the elementary and middle schools. http://www.startribune.com/st-paul-parents-and-others-to-rally-ag...
HUD’s Office of Public and Indian Housing (PIH) published a proposed rule to revise the Native American and Native Hawaiian programs by incorporating an existing fair housing rule, the Equal Access rule published on February 3, 2012 (see Memo, 2/3/12), which requires HUD programs to be available regardless of sexual orientation or marital status. The proposed revisions would also incorporate a proposed Gender Identity rule published on November 20, 2015 by HUD’s Office of Community Planning and Development (see Memo, 12/7/15). HUD did not ori...
POPLAR, Montana, May 17 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Life on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking - poverty, isolation, joblessness and violence, topped with an epidemic of crystal meth addiction. Drug users are selling their babies, daughters and sisters for the potent stimulant that is ravaging Native American communities such as the Assiniboine and Sioux tribes living on the desolate plains of Fort Peck, say community leaders, experts and federal authorities....
Two landmark tribal justice laws have made a significant impact in Indian Country in the last six years and key members of Congress are looking to build on those gains. The Tribal Law and Order Act became law in 2010 and it set the stage for the Violence Against Women Act three years later. Both were written to help tribes address high rates of crime on their reservations, including violence against women. http://www.indianz.com/News/2016/05/17/senate-committee-on-indian-affairs-focus.asp...
A letter obtained by CBC's iTeam shows there was a 60-hour gap between the time Nadine Machiskinic was found fatally injured at the bottom of a laundry chute at Regina's Delta Hotel, and when police were called in to investigate. Machiskinic's aunt believes she may have been thrown down that chute and she said the delay is unacceptable. "That's my biggest issue," said Delores Stevenson, Machiskinic's aunt. "The hours after her death should have been the most crucial part of the investigation but that wasn't the case for her."...
Representatives Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Arizona) and Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Arizona) led 33 of their congressional colleagues in sending a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi on Monday, May 16 urging immediate action on a Zika funding supplemental that includes dedicated funding for tribal communities. In the letter, Kirkpatrick and Grijalva note that tribal communities are “among the most at-risk for tick- and mosquito-borne diseases” and that the Indian Health Service (IHS) lacks “the staffing or resources to undert...
The "beast" wildfire burning out of control around Fort McMurray will be pushed east today, spurred by high winds, and is expected to encroach on major oilsands facilities owned by Suncor and Syncrude, officials say. Those massive plants north of the city, used to process bitumen, are surrounded by wide barriers of cleared firebreak and gravel, and employ their own firefighting crews. "We expect the [fire] to move east towards Suncor's facility, Northlands sawmill and potentially towards northern portions of Fort McMurray," said Chad Morrison,...
TACOMA, Wash. (CN) — A former Makah Tribal Council member will serve six months in prison for embezzling $30,000 from the tribe. Ryland Chad Bowechop, of Bellingham, was charged in June 2015 with one count of embezzling from an Indian tribal organization. He pleaded guilty in February, admitting he used a tribal credit card for cash advances at casinos, hotel and resort charges and other personal expenses. http://www.courthousenews.com/2016/05/17/tribal-council-member-jailed-for-embezzlement.htm...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - A former purchasing agent for the Jicarilla (hihk-ah-REE’-uh) Apache Nation has pleaded guilty to theft in the embezzlement of $23,000 from the northwestern New Mexico tribe. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says 46-year-old Vanessa Cohoe pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Albuquerque and that a plea agreement requires her to serve a probation term and pay $5,000 in restitution to the tribe. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/17/former-tribal-agent-pleads-guilty-to-theft-in-embe/...
ROSEBUD, S.D. (AP) — Federal officials have confirmed that a man accused of shooting and wounding a tribal officer on the Rosebud Indian Reservation last week has been taken into custody. The FBI said Jacob Linn Cross Dog III ran off Tuesday after he shot and injured a tribal police officer. The agency's release offered no details on formal charges or Cross Dog's custody status, and a supervisory special agent said he had no other details. http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/south-dakota/fbi-confirms-arrest-i...
Clayton Denny said that it was a quick assault on a street in Sheridan, Wyo. last week. "A push, white flash, bits and pieces of pain," he said. The next thing he remembers was the blood pool on the ground, where charging documents say two men repeatedly punched him. http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/man-recovering-in-billings-after-violent-assault-in-sheridan/article_b41b25ab-26e3-5365-9804-e8936ea7be81.html...
A transit police officer has been cleared of wrongdoing in a fatal confrontation in Surrey, B.C. The Independent Investigations Office, the civilian agency that investigates serious police-related incidents, issued a report saying the officer used reasonable force when she shot 23-year-old Naverone Woods in a Safeway parking lot in December 2014. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/transit-police-officer-cleared-1.3585142...
For Denny Poole's birthday last month, his family ordered him a cake and lit the candles — though they knew he wouldn't be there to blow them out. They gathered at the last place the teenager was seen, 30 kilometres out of town and released balloons into the air with prayers for his return. "He would have turned 15," said his oldest sister, Alisha. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/denny-poole-missing-reward-1.3586325...
