Red Lake Nation News - Babaamaajimowinan (Telling of news in different places)

Native American students make up 1.4 percent of the students in Washington state public schools. And they have the lowest graduation rate of any ethnic group, with just 56.4 percent earning a high school diploma in four years.

“I was that young person, I dropped out of school. I was one of those statistics of Native women dropouts,” says Dawn Hardison-Stevens, who is a member of the Steilacoom Tribal Council.

http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/the-importance-of-training-teachers-to-better-understand-their-native-students-20170915