Students at the Beatrice Rafferty School on the Pleasant Point Reservation in Maine. Photo from Beatrice Rafferty School

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell will be visiting two Indian schools next week.

Jewell and Education Secretary Arne Duncan will be at the Beatrice Rafferty School on Monday. The school is located on the Passamaquoddy Reservation at Pleasant Point and is due to receive $18.5 million in federal funds for a replacement facility.

A sign at the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. Photo from Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School

On Tuesday, Jewell will visit the Bug-O-Nay-Ge-Shig School on the Leech Lake Reservation in Minnesota. She will be joined by Assistant Secretary Kevin Washburn, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

The school is also in need of an update -- high school students attend classes in a metal barn that was originally build to house an auto mechanic school and bus garage. But federal funds for the $25 million project are lacking.

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