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Ashby, Cornelia – US Government Accountability Office, 2008
The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLBA) requires states and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) to define and determine whether schools are making adequate yearly progress (AYP) toward the goal of 100 percent academic proficiency. To address tribes' needs for cultural preservation, NCLBA allows tribal groups to waive all…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Public Speaking, American Indian Education, Tribes
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Comptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
Comments from program directors, Indian contractors, and tribal leaders are considered in the report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (B.I.A.) Indian Action Team Program, implemented in 1972 to provide Indian people living on reservations with job training through Indian Technical Assistance Center contracts with tribal groups. Funding was $66.2…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Contracts, Educational Programs
Bureau of Indian Affairs (Dept. of Interior), Washington, DC. – 1999
As part of Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) funding, Tribal Priority Allocations (TPA) are the principal source of funds for tribal governments and agency offices at the reservation level. According to their unique needs and circumstances, tribes may prioritize funding among eight general categories: government, human services, education, public…
Descriptors: American Indians, Disadvantaged, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Indian Relationship
Levitan, Sar A.; Miller, Elizabeth I. – 1993
This paper analyzes and evaluates federal assistance to Indians on or near reservations and recommends public policies to promote self-determination through economic development. Most Indian tribes rely on federal funds for basic necessities and services. At current funding levels, reservation residents lead lives of deprivation or opt for…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Economic Development, Elementary Secondary Education
LaCounte, Larry – 1993
In a survey of 59 tribes, 27 said they were dissatisfied with the way school districts consult with them under the Impact Aid Program. Impact Aid legislation provides additional funds to local school districts educating children whose parents are employed by the federal government or live on federal property. In 1958, Congress included children…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Community Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education
Federal Interagency Committee on Education, Washington, DC. Subcommittee on Indian Education. – 1978
Five areas concern the Subcommittee on Indian Education for 1979. First, there is lack of coordination at the funding level and the operations level among the many federal agencies and programs involved in providing early childhood education services to Indians. The feasibility of establishing a National Center for Early Childhood Indian Education…
Descriptors: Agency Role, American Indian Education, American Indians, Construction Programs
National Indian Education Association, Minneapolis, Minn. – 1975
Focusing on the Johnson O'Malley Act (JOM) and its relationship to subsequent laws, this report on the financing of Indian education in public schools examines the allocation and use of JOM funds for basic educational costs and for supplementary programs, as well as the mixes of local, state, and federal tax revenues available to school districts…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Educational Finance, Educational History