ending May 18
Assistant Secretary Neal McCaleb at
Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico.
Photo © NSM.
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Haney says tribal profits withdrawn (5/14)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) more stories
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