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If you don't label the smartest kids "gifted and talented," will they still get the education they deserve? That's the question in Baltimore County, where school Superintendent Dallas Dance has proposed eliminating the name in a new policy — the latest move in a larger shift in how the district educates some of its brightest students. For some parents, it's a move that goes too far. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/education/bs-md-co-gifted-and-talented-name-change-20160807-story.html...
It was the first week in August, and teachers at Kelly Miller Middle School were already scrambling to decorate classrooms and hone lesson plans. The school’s more than 500 students will arrive Monday at the Washington Northeast campus for the first day of school as summer continues for most others in the Washington area. They will be in class weeks earlier than in years past. Kelly Miller is one of 10 D.C. public schools that will embark on a new, year-round academic calendar starting Monday. Their academic year will have 20 more days than o...
Miami - Hudson Dunn has always been an active boy. His daycare teachers called him “demanding” and “independent.” In preschool, he preferred singing and daydreaming to learning the ABCs. By the time he was in kindergarten in Broward County, Hudson was banned from class field trips unless his mother came along to keep track of him. He often came home crying. “It created an environment in the classroom where he was labeled a bad kid,” said his mom, Jenine Dunn. Hudson has Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD — one of the most comm...
Burnsville conservative Oliver Wilson wants to vote for a congressional candidate who promotes national security. “I want to make sure my kids … aren’t fighting in a war,” he said. Melissa Armbrust said that as a teacher, she’s concerned about gun control. “It’s so easy for anyone to get a gun,” said the Apple Valley independent. http://www.startribune.com/fierce-battle-in-minnesota-s-2nd-district-gop-primary/389436191/...
Wayne Hesse, a semiretired southwest Minnesota farmer, wants to install a raft of solar panels on his property. He’d generate electricity for his home and farm, and sell excess power back to his electric co-op. But his plan has hit a big roadblock. His co-op, Lyon-Lincoln Electric, recently rolled out a new fee for residential solar customers. It would cost Hesse $49 per month, a blow to the economic feasibility of his project, he said. To Hesse, Lyon-Lincoln is penalizing him for producing and selling more power back to the co-op than he w...
MEXICO CITY — Tropical Storm Javier pushed closer to the resort city of Cabo San Lucas on the tip of Mexico's Baja California Peninsula Monday, while the death toll from former Hurricane Earl rose to 39 in the country's eastern mountains. Communities in two states were digging out from weekend mudslides during heavy rains brought by remnants of Earl, which slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast. Javier was expected to brush Cabo San Lucas late Monday and continue raking the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula. http://www.startribu...
Katelin Ferrell, age 17, recalls sobbing uncontrollably while trying to block out the sound of five adults screaming orders just inches from her face. Moments later, she says, staff at the Anoka County juvenile facility threw her to the floor, shackled her wrists and ankles, and left her isolated in her room. Not until the next day, Katelin says, was she finally taken to Mercy Hospital in Coon Rapids, where she was treated for a broken orbital bone beneath her eye socket, burst blood vessels in both eyes and a concussion. “I have no idea w...
Soon after winning a National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in late June, Penobscot basketmaker Theresa Secord of Waterville called the recognition “the greatest honor that I could receive in my lifetime.” The fellowship is, after all, “the nation’s highest honor in the traditional arts”, as Portland Press Herald writer Bob Keyes noted. Its nine recipients each receive a $25,000 stipend and will be feted at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in September. http://www.pressherald.com/2016/08/07/9891...
The Dakota Access Pipeline is set to pass beneath the Missouri River less than a mile from North Dakota’s Standing Rock Reservation, where tribal members rely on the river as the sole water supply. Every day, the planned pipeline will transport 450,000 barrels of North Dakota oil 1,172 miles across North and South Dakota, Iowa, and Illinois, according to Energy Transfer Partners, the Dallas-based company behind the project Young people from the reservation ran a nearly 2,000-mile relay to Washington, D.C. to deliver a petition with over 1...
A few years ago, chef Sean Sherman left his job running the kitchen at Common Roots Cafe in Uptown to start his own business. Sherman, who is Oglala Lakota and was born on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, wanted to cook the food of his ancestors. At the time, he was interested in starting a restaurant, but started with a food truck. Since then, Sherman, aka Sioux Chef, has been all over local and national news and has brought his ideas to local indigenous people as well as a broader audience. His food truck, Tatanka Truck, is a...
This past June, 30-year-old Mikah Meyer set out from Washington, DC on a roadtrip across America to visit more than 400 sites within the U.S. National Park system. And VOA has been following him as he travels from state to state. Thanks to the stunning photographs and videos Mikah and his travel companion Andy Waldron have been sending us, we have a virtual front row seat to some of the most amazing land and waterscapes within the U.S. national park system. As one observer recently noted, it’s almost as good as being there. Grand Portage N...
Neglect and arguably education malpractice have been the shameful hallmarks of public schooling for many Native American students so it’s no surprise that when the state of Arizona finally offered another option, the parents of those children rushed to embrace it. In 2015, Native American families for the first time were allowed to tap into Arizona’s education savings account, state funds that parents can use to pay for private school tuition and other educational options. “When I heard about the [new funding], I jumped at it,” said Tamelia...
What people earn on average differs among gender and race. Men earn more than women, and whites earn more than members of other races. Beyond these general facts, things get complicated: What jobs are people seeking and getting? What levels of education and experience are they bringing? Is the difference between full- and part-time work factored in? It takes work to make apples-to-apples comparisons. So the information from a large ongoing study of postgraduate outcomes by Minnesota’s employment department is useful and can be applied a...
BILLINGS (AP) – A south-central Washington state man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. The Montana Highway Patrol says the 29-year-old man from White Swan, Washington, was northbound on Secondary Highway 413 at about 12:30 a.m. Friday when his pickup truck drifted off the road between Busby and Kirby. It crashed into the end of a guardrail, rolled down an embankment and into a creek. The man was thrown from the pickup and died at the scene. His name has not been released. h...
Firefighters won their battle against the wildfire burning near Grace Sunday but lost ground to the blaze raging on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. Both fires started Saturday and grew to a combined 1,700 acres by late Saturday night. The fire north of Grace was contained by 2 p.m. Sunday after scorching 200 acres and the flames were expected to be extinguished by Sunday night. http://idahostatejournal.com/news/local/wildfires-raging-on-fort-hall-indian-reservation-and-grace-area/article_91ec3665-9441-58ec-b8d9-9ba89b5eadb...
The Flandreau Santee Sioux had an understanding with the federal government: the tribe could grow and sell marijuana so long as it kept it on the reservation and out of the hands of minors and criminals. It didn't have a deal with Marty Jackley. The South Dakota attorney general this week brought criminal charges against two Colorado consultants hired by the tribe to help set up a marijuana operation on its reservation south of Brookings. http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/2016/08/06/after-marijuana-charges-questions-sove...
An exciting population of native tobacco plant has emerged from its seed bank in Redding. It's difficult to know how long it has been waiting there for the right conditions to grow, but the bloom hints at some profoundly interesting American Indian history. As a professional botanist who conducts plant surveys in the North State, it's nearly impossible for me to turn off my perpetual plant-identification scanning and curiosity for identifying plants anywhere I am. Which is why, while driving home from work, I noticed some tall, showy white...
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first in a four-part series chronicling methamphetamine use on the Yankton Sioux Tribe Reservation in south-central South Dakota. Earlier this year, South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley proclaimed South Dakota is under a methamphetamine epidemic, and the Department of Justice has reported that Native Americans have the highest rates of meth abuse in the nation. YANKTON SIOUX TRIBE RESERVATION — Almost three years after forming its own, independent police force, law enforcement on the Yankton Sioux Tribe has i...
California, beset by drought, has another water problem: reservoirs so contaminated with mercury that state officials want to issue warnings on fish consumption for 180 of 300 the state sampled. Most of the water bodies are clustered in central and southern California, according to a map compiled by the State Water Resources Control Board, which conducted the mercury sampling. Many are popular fishing spots, and reservoir owners are being asked to post voluntary warnings about consuming fish such as bass, the Los Angeles Times reported on July...
There are about 644,000 Native American students in the country, and they suffer some of the nation's worst schools. Four in ten won't graduate from high school and only one in five are proficient in math. Native American students lag far behind their peers in the traditional public schools. The sad state of Native American education is chronicled in a 10-minute mini-documentary released Monday by the pro-school choice group American Federation for Children, entitled "America's Underdogs: Students in Crisis." http://www.wash...
According to an announcement by Sundance, five of the institute’s Native American and Indigenous Program alumni have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. This is a positive change for Oscars diversity as the Native artists become a part of the nominating and voting body of the Oscars, each within their own branches and on larger voting sections for the awards. The five artists and program alumni - as well as a few of their production credits - are listed on the Sundance Institute website: Read more at h...
BILLINGS, Mont. — A Lower Yakima Valley man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. The Montana Highway Patrol says the 29-year-old man from White Swan was northbound on Secondary Highway 413 at about 12:30 a.m. Friday when his pickup truck drifted off the road between Busby and Kirby. It crashed into the end of a guardrail, rolled down an embankment and into a creek. The Billings Gazette reported that the man was thrown from the pickup and died at the scene. His name has not been r...
WEBSTER—The decision for the St. Croix Tribe of Chippewa enrollment case involving the appeal of five individuals to gain back their tribal enrollment remains unknown. According to St. Croix tribal attorney Jeffrey Cormell, the acting judge on the case, Stockbridge-Munsee tribal judge Candace Des Armo Coury, has pushed back the deadline on making her decision in the case until Monday, Aug. 8. This is the second time Des Armo Coury has pushed back her decision since both parties rested on Monday, July 25. Attorney Cormell stated that he has b...
Mere hours after Todd Little Bull predicted he would be killed on what appears to be his Social Media page, the young Oglala Lakota was gunned down at or near his home north of Sharps Corner on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation early Tuesday morning. It was August 2, Little Bull’s 25th birthday. On a Facebook page that has since been shut down, Indigenous Life Movement shared screenshots of messages that Little Bull originally posted on his social media site around 2:07 a.m. mentioning threats against his life. Soon after his posts, Little B...
The number of Native Americans killed by police is on track to double this year, according to a report from The Guardian. So far this year, 13 Native Americans have been killed in officer-involved incidents, while “fatal police shootings of black, white, Hispanic and Asian Americans have all gone down slightly or remained roughly the same from 2015 into 2016,” according to The Guardian based on data from its catalog of police shootings, The Counted. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/08/04/native-ame...
