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WEST CHESTER, Pa., and OJAI, Calif., Aug. 19, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- When the coronavirus crisis emptied classrooms worldwide and forced millions of students and teachers to stay home, schools grappled with an unprecedented disruption to their work. During a time fraught with uncertainty and unease, it was hard to see a silver lining: That, perhaps, this was an opportunity to reexamine education as we know it. Laurel Springs School, an accredited online private school serving K-12 students for nea...
President Trump’s stunning admission last week — that he plans to cut off funding for the U.S. Postal Service to interfere with voting by mail — means that institutions underpinning our democracy are now under threat. That’s one reason the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has partnered with the Lakota People’s Law Project, Senator Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and U.S. House Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) to make sure Congress passes the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA). “Come November, every available vote must be cast and all voices shoul...
Washington–Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) joined Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.), Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and a group of their colleagues to urge the Department of Commerce and Census Bureau to honor their previously announced 2020 census completion date to ensure an accurate count for Indian Country and the Native Hawaiian community. On April 13, 2020, the Commerce Department and Census Bureau announced a modified timeline for 2020 census operations due to the coronavirus pandemic, which extended the deadline for field data collection to O...
RCMP have released new information identifying a man police believe is involved in the case of a missing teenager in Cape Breton. Cpl. Lisa Croteau said RCMP are continuing to ask the public for help finding 14-year-old Mary (Molly) Martin, who was last seen on Thursday in Eskasoni. Croteau said Martin is believed to be with a male who is known to her and they are believed to be in Cape Breton. https://capebreton.lokol.me/s/rcmp-release-new-info-on-cape-breton-man-believed-to...
The Edmonton police commission has upheld the suspension without pay of an officer facing an assault charge for a violent 2019 arrest in which he walked up to an Indigenous man under arrest and drove his knee into the prone man's back. The commission made the decision after a July 13 hearing in which the Edmonton Police Association (EPA), the union that represents police members, argued the suspension against Cst. Michael Partington was not warranted, a letter from the union president to members states. In his July 23 letter, obtained by CBC...
Hard work is leading to big things as Julian Guerrero Jr. hopes to impact the future of Native American people. A member of the Comanche Nation, he hopes his next step will help his and other tribal members in their quest for a better education. Guerrero has accepted a national position as the Director of the Office of Indian Education (OIE) at the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C. https://www.swoknews.com/news/lawtonian-takes-role-as-federal-director-of-the-office-of-indian-education/article_7d89595c...