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The Week in Review
ending May 18
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Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb at
Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico.
Photo © NSM.
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Norton touts education policies
Secretary of Interior Gale Norton and Assistant
Secretary Neal McCaleb toured three
Indian schools in New Mexico this week to push the
Bush administration's
"leave no child behind" policy.
Most of the visit focused on improving
tribal school facilities and an early childhood
development program that Norton hopes
to expand with additional funding
in the upcoming year.
A short set of consultation meetings this
summer will focus on additional
issues, with the exception of
privatization.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs won't
contract out the lowest performing
schools, McCaleb said, because
Congress said it would not fund
the effort.
Get the Story:
Norton scheduled for radio appearance
(5/13)
Leave no Indian child behind
(5/15)
BIA privatization proposal
scrapped (5/16)
Lesson Plans: Isleta Pueblo
(5/16)
Pueblo school wants on priority
list (5/16)
Pueblos want school buildings
restored (5/17)
Seminole dispute partially resolved
After a tense standoff, a Bureau of Indian Affairs
appellate court this week unseated Jerry Haney
as leader of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma.
Haney was ousted in an election last year
but temporarily restored by a judge whose
decree the current leadership resisted.
The defiance paid off and principal chief
Ken Chambers and his administration were
trying to restore order to the tribe's
businesses, which they said lost $4 million
during the shutdown.
Haney said further legal challenges are not
out of the question.
Get the Story:
Haney says tribal profits
withdrawn (5/14)
Court decision kicks Haney out
(5/15)
Seminole Nation back in business
(5/16)
Haney continues Seminole fight
(5/17)
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