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Senators are pouring cold water on U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos' vision of a big new investment in school choice, as well as the Trump administration's plans to dramatically slash spending at the U.S. Department of Education. Legislation on both fronts received bipartisan support from the full Senate appropriations committee last week. In addition to barring the administration from using federal funding for vouchers or public school choice, it would continue paying for two high-profile programs the Trump administration is seeking to...
Just years after New York began requiring prospective teachers to pass a tough new exam, the state’s top education policy makers are lowering the score needed to enter the classroom. The move could open the door to more teachers of color, who have failed the exam in disproportionate numbers since the state began requiring it in 2014. https://www.chalkbeat.org/posts/ny/2017/09/12/new-yorks-most-controversial-teacher-certification-exam-is-now-a-little-easier-to-pass/...
• AMVETS Post #5: Photographs by Xavier Tavera," Sat., Sept. 23, 2017-Sun., April 22, 2018 After the Vietnam War, "when we tried to join the VFW clubs, [the] American Legions, they said no," says Gilbert De la O. So, he and other Mexican and Mexican-American war veterans who settled in St. Paul, decided to start their own post, VFW Post #5. View 35 large-scale, color portraits of these veterans taken by artist Xavier Tavera. (Lorenzo C. Rangel) • "Renewing What They Gave Us: Native American Art...
WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke directed all Department of the Interior bureaus, superintendents, and land managers at all levels to adopt more aggressive practices, using the full authority of the Department, to prevent and combat the spread of catastrophic wildfires through robust fuels reduction and pre-suppression techniques. This year-to-date, 47,700 wildfires have burned 8 million acres across the country, with the majority of the devastation in the states of California and Montana. High-profile fires in Y...
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump and top Democratic leaders late Wednesday agreed to work out an agreement that would protect the nation's "dreamers" from deportation and enact border security measures that don't include building a physical wall, according to people familiar with the meeting. The president discussed the deal during a dinner at the White House with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. The meal included Chinese food and chocolate pie. http://www.be...
LOS ANGELES - A McDonald's cashier is facing an attempted murder charge after giving birth to a boy while at work and then trying to flush the newborn down a toilet inside the Redwood City, Calif., restaurant, prosecutors said. Sarah Lockner was working as a cashier at the McDonald's restaurant on the evening of Sept. 4 when she complained of stomach pain, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. http://www.bemidjipioneer.com/news/4327580-mcdonalds-employee-gives-birth-restroom-tries-flush-infant-down-to...
Following a national trend, Minnesota families in 2016 had more money in their pockets, were less likely to be poor and were more likely to have health insurance, data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau show. Yet those successes were not felt equally. Large gaps remain between the income, poverty and insurance rates of many Minnesotans of color and their white neighbors. http://www.twincities.com/2017/09/14/minnesotans-incomes-are-up-poverty-is-down-but-successes-remain-uneven/...
WASHINGTON — The top House and Senate Democrats said Wednesday they had reached agreement with President Donald Trump to protect thousands of younger immigrants from deportation and fund some border security enhancements — not including Trump’s long-sought border wall. The deal announced by Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi following a White House dinner would enshrine protections for the nearly 800,000 immigrants brought illegally to this country as kids who had benefited from former Presi...
Cherokee voters delivered a clear message to the sitting Tribal Council when they cast their votes in the General Election Thursday, Sept. 7 — they want change. Of the nine incumbents who ran for re-election this year, only five won their races, with one of the four who lost — Painttown Councilmember Marie Junaluska — not even making it past June’s Primary Election. The impeachment of former Principal Chief Patrick Lambert, which many voters contend was unwarranted, was one of the central issues of the past two-year term, creating a clear d...
It's been more than two decades since Congress passed a stand-alone federal recognition bill but six tribes in Virginia are hoping to turn the tide in their favor. The tribes welcomed the first European settlers at Jamestown more than 400 years ago. They signed some of the first treaties with foreign nations and some even settled on the first Indian reservations in what is now known as the United States. https://www.indianz.com/News/2017/09/13/federal-recognition-bill-for-six-tribes.asp...
The Yerington Paiute Tribe has asked the city of Yerington and Lyon County to enter into a compact to open a medical marijuana dispensary within city limits. The potential dispensary site is a building behind the Smoke Shop at 601 W. Bridge St., said Joe Dice, co-founder and former president of Tribal Cannabis Consulting. The property is owned by the tribe. http://www.rgj.com/story/news/local/mason-valley/2017/09/13/yerington-paiute-tribe-has-plans-marijuana-dispensary/663051001/...
Bernie Sanders is expected to introduce his version of health care reform, a plan he calls “Medicare for all.” At least fifteen Democrats have signed on as co-sponsors to the single-payer plan. “This is where the country has got to go,” Sanders told The Washington Post. “Right now, if we want to move away from a dysfunctional, wasteful, bureaucratic system into a rational health-care system that guarantees coverage to everyone in a cost-effective way, the only way to do it is Medicare for All.” https://www.indianz.com/News/2...
PHOENIX - The mother of 26-year-old Katczinzki Ariel Begay, also known as "Kat", is pleading with the public to call authorities if they think they may have seen her. "We’ve been all over the place looking for her, constantly," said Jacqueline Whitman, Kat’s mother. "I’m not giving up on her." http://www.12news.com/news/local/arizona/family-searching-for-missing-navajo-woman/474719454...
It doesn’t smell right, so maybe an official probe will tell if it’s rotten. The Interior Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) is examining the extraordinary and politically suspect reassignment of dozens of Senior Executive Service (SES) members. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/09/12/interiors-unusual-transfer-of-senior-executives-spurs-official-probe/?utm_term=.40d01101774f...
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke today announced that he has named John Tahsuda III, a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, as DOI’s Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs (PDAS). The appointment was effective September 3, 2017. The PDAS serves as the first assistant and principal advisor to the Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs in the development and interpretation of policies affecting Indian Affairs bureaus, offices and programs. “I want to welcome John Tahsuda to my Indian Affairs leadership team,” said Secr...
A 6-year-old girl died last weekend in the third alcohol-related fatal crash south of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation since beer sales ended in Whiteclay four months ago. Christina Roubideaux, two other children and three adults were in a minivan that flipped and rolled Saturday evening along a gravel road between Chadron and the reservation town of Oglala, South Dakota. http://journalstar.com/news/local/911/girl-killed-in-third-alcohol-related-crash-since-whiteclay-beer/article_51e0e049-89d6-58d2-94c9-62e5d4368012.html...
Osceola drove the point that Native Americans' experiences and responses to hurricanes and other natural disasters stem from a deep connection and reverence for nature, one that is severely lacking in modern society. She wrote, "Our ancestors the Seminole and Miccosukee were taught not to fear the Hurricane. The generations of our people today need to remember and to share the stories with our younger generations so they too will respect and love the natural world." In the 1700's, American colonists had displaced Native American tribes from...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A composing boot camp is allowing teens and adults from a South Dakota American Indian reservation who may never have written a piece of music before to hear their original compositions performed by professional musicians. Eight students and adults from the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe and nearby community teamed up with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra as part of the Lakota Music Project, aimed at building relationships between American Indians and white communities. Two ensembles will perform the works at free c...
SEOUL/TOKYO (Reuters) - A North Korean state agency threatened on Thursday to use nuclear weapons to "sink" Japan and reduce the United States to "ashes and darkness" for supporting a U.N. Security Council resolution and sanctions over its latest nuclear test. The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North's external ties and propaganda, also called for the breakup of the Security Council, which it called "a tool of evil" made up of "money-bribed" countries that move at the order of the United States. https:...
