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About half of all U.S. public school districts are considered rural, and they collectively enroll some 12 million students, or one-quarter of the total public school population, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Whether these students end up graduating from high school and college, and how they fare in the workforce, is linked inextricably to their rural education experiences, a new report finds. https://www.the74million.org/article/solving-the-rural-education-gap-experts-weigh-in-on-new-reports-find...
Districts serving many low-income children in New Jersey receive nearly $5,000 more per pupil from the state government than districts with a fewer poor students. If that same district was located in Montana, it would only receive an extra $18 per student from the state. Despite the fact that the majority of states have education funding formulas meant to target low-income students, the effectiveness of this targeting varies widely around the country. In states where districts are more economically segregated, policymakers have an easier time...
No matter the Paris Climate Agreement, Minnesota officials said Thursday that the state’s march to reducing greenhouse gas emissions will go on. With a plan adopted in 2007, the state has been a national leader in pursuing an aggressive plan to reduce emissions of the chemicals that cause climate change. And though Minnesota has missed its targets in recent years, President Trump’s controversial decision to pull the United States out of the global climate deal struck last year won’t change what has been slow and steady progress, state envir...
The FBI is conducting an investigation into possible fraud in the Gophers ticket department, a person with knowledge of the situation told the Star Tribune Thursday. Earlier this year, the U’s office of internal audit discovered some discrepancies in ticket records, the source said. After taking action of its own to address the situation, the university turned over those findings to the FBI. http://www.startribune.com/fbi-assisting-university-of-minnesota-with-probe-of-possible-fraud-in-ticket-office/425830553/...
A man shot and killed his parents and then took his own life in the family’s Andover home, authorities said Thursday. A man who lives near the home in the 900 block of 139th Avenue N. identified the three killed in recent days as Karen Regnier, 69, and Brian Regnier, 58, and their 27-year-old son, Aaron. The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the identities later Thursday. http://www.startribune.com/andover-neighbor-ids-3-family-members-who-died-from-foul-play/425699113/...
A judge has ordered the city of Chaska to pay $1.75 million to the family and attorney of a woman fatally shot by a police officer in 2014. A year after the shooting, the family of Dawn Pfister, 34, of Elkhorn, Wis., sued the city and officer Brady Juell in federal court, seeking more than $5 million. The lawsuit accused Juell of improperly using deadly force and the city of failing to properly train officers and discipline Juell. http://www.startribune.com/chaska-to-pay-1-75-million-in-hwy-212-police-shooting-in-2014/425815...
MANILA, Philippines — A gunman stormed a casino in the Philippine capital and torched gambling tables in the crowded space, creating a choking level of smoke that killed at least 36 people, authorities said. The gunman stuffed a backpack with casino chips before he fled but was found dead in an adjacent hotel early Friday of an apparent suicide. The bodies were found in the smoky gambling room by firefighters and all died from suffocation and smoke inhalation, Metropolitan Manila police chief Oscar Albayalde said. None of the bodies had g...
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared Thursday he was pulling the U.S. from the landmark Paris climate agreement, striking a major blow to worldwide efforts to combat global warming and distancing the country from its closest allies abroad. Framing his decision as "a reassertion of America's sovereignty," Trump said he was "elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris." He said the U.S. could try to re-enter the deal under more favorable terms or work to establish "an entirely new transaction." But he indicated that was h...
The process of removing artist Sam Durant's "Scaffold" from the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden will begin at 2 p.m. Friday, to be followed by a burning ceremony at an as-of-yet undetermined date (the dismantling is expected to take four days or so). The decision was announced Wednesday at a press conference following a meeting between Dakota elders, Durant, Walker Art Center Executive Director Olga Viso, Minneapolis officials and mediator Stephanie Hope Smith, who specializes in sacred sites. http://www.startribune.com/art-cri...
Texas, following South Dakota, has passed a law that will enable adoption services to refuse adoptions to non-Christians. The new law travels under the misnomer “Freedom to Serve Children Act.” The subject matter of the law has always been difficult for Indians, whether it’s children needing a home or adults seeking to adopt. In the 2010 census, Texas was fourth in Indian population, behind California, Oklahoma, and Arizona. Still, the Indians there are spread across a very large state and there are only three tiny reservations. That means...
Nevada is one of the driest states in the country, yet swimming pools are filled, lawns are watered and water flows from the tap whenever we need it. But what if it didn’t? That’s the case for many people who live on the Navajo Reservation, which sprawls across Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. It’s estimated 40 percent of that reservation has no access to running water. https://knpr.org/knpr/2017-06/navajo-nation-residents-still-without-running-water-basic-utilities...
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community is launching a Dakota language training program. The goal of the Voices of Our Ancestors program is to keep the language alive for future generations. Starting in August, the tribe, along with four tribal colleges, will train a total of 20 students in Dakota language, culture and history. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/06/01/shakopee-tribe-partners-with-tribal-coll.asp...
Women are serving in all of the top leadership positions for the Snoqualmie Tribe, based in Washington. The chair, vice chair, treasurer and secretary posts are all held by women. At the top is Chairwoman Sunny Clear, who won election on May 13, according to a press release. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/31/snoqualmie-tribe-chooses-women-to-serve.asp...
TAHOLAH, WASHINGTON — “On behalf of the elected officials and other citizens of the Quinault Indian Nation, I extend gratitude to the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office and our Quinault Nation Police Department for the diligent and professional job they have done in locating and arresting a suspect in the murder of Jimmy Kramer and injury of Harvey Anderson,” said QIN President Fawn Sharp. On Tuesday, May 30, the Grays Harbor County Sheriff’s Office arrested James D. Walker, 31, for the deadly incident at the Donkey Creek Campgroun...
Notable Native chefs and American Indian Movement representatives traveled to Tours, France, earlier this month to promote indigenous foods from Minnesota. Among them were The Sioux Chef Sean Sherman and his Chef de Cuisine Brian Yazzie. Several proponents of White Earth Real Wild Rice also traveled overseas with the Minnesota coalition for La Foire de Tours, one of the largest culinary and arts festivals in France. The May 4-10 event drew more than 30,000 attendees, who sampled their wild rice, walleye and buffalo from various Minnesota-based...
The House Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs is slowly but surely getting back to work. Since the start of the 115th Congress, the panel has held just two Indian Country hearings.The first took place on March 9 but then there was a long silence until the second one on May 23. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/31/key-house-subcommittee-takes-up-indian-b.asp...
A tribal citizen has taken a top law enforcement post at the Department of the Interior. Darren Cruzan is serving as the "acting" director of the Office of Law Enforcement Services, The Washington Post reported. His name was placed on the office's webpage sometime in the last few days. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/05/31/miami-nation-citizen-takes-top-law-enfor.asp...
A fifth defendant in a case involving unlawful spending of tribal funds pleaded guilty today, and a defendant in a separate, similar case is scheduled for sentencing June 12. Ann German, 59, pleaded guilty in federal court to conspiracy to commit theft from a tribal organization. She was one of six people charged in October 2015 concerning the unlawful spending of $81,543 from the Big Coulee District, a political subdivision of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, according to court documents. http://www.thepublicopinion.com/news/lo...
ABERDEEN, S.D. (AP) — A fifth defendant charged in a tribal embezzlement case in South Dakota has pleaded guilty in federal court in Aberdeen. The American News reports (http://bit.ly/2sicuXb) that 59-year-old Ann German pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit theft from a tribal organization. https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/south-dakota/articles/2017-06-01/woman-pleads-guilty-in-south-dakota-tribal-embezzlement-case...
Hundreds of people turned out to remember the lives of two Indigenous teenagers from remote northern Ontario First Nations who were found dead in the McIntyre River system in Thunder Bay, Ont., in May. The community prayer walk was held Thursday to remember Tammy Keeash, 17, from North Caribou Lake First Nation and Josiah Begg, 14, from Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug. They both went missing on the evening of May 6, and their bodies were found about two weeks apart. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/keeash-begg-prayer-w...
