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Cassandria Dortch – Congressional Research Service, 2024
The federal government provides child development, elementary and secondary education, and educational assistance to Indian children, in a federal school system and in public school systems that predominantly receive state and local funding. The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) oversees the federally…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Public Education
Dortch, Cassandria – Congressional Research Service, 2020
The federal government provides child development, elementary and secondary education, and educational assistance to Indian children, in a federal school system and in public school-systems that predominantly receive state and local funding. The Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) in the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) oversees the federally…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Public Education
Berney, Tomi D.; Lista, Carlos A. – 1990
Project CABE (Content Area Bilingual Education) offered instruction in English as a Second Language (ESL) and Native Language Arts (NLA) to 823 limited English proficient Spanish-Speaking students in grades 1 through 9 in 34 schools in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens (New York). All students were two or more years below level in mathematics and…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, English (Second Language), Federal Programs, Limited English Speaking
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. – 1994
A Senate committee received testimony supporting reauthorization of the Native Hawaiian Education Act as part of reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). In the previous week, the House of Representatives had narrowly defeated an effort to delete the Native Hawaiian Education Act from ESEA reauthorization. The Native…
Descriptors: College Preparation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education
Berney, Tomi D.; Adelman, Deborah – 1990
Project Technological Enrichment and Achievement for Cambodians and Hispanics (TEACH) served limited-English-proficient (LEP) students from several Caribbean and Central American countries and Cambodia at Theodore Roosevelt High School (Bronx, New York). The goals of the program were to help LEP students adjust academically and culturally to life…
Descriptors: Cambodian, Cambodians, Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education
Tanguay, Suzanne – 1984
Since 1973 the Canadian government has effected a major policy change in Indian education which is characterized by a new awareness and willingness to let native people control their education and administer their schools. The new mentality with regard to native education is producing improvements, although changes are slow. Native students…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Boards of Education, Canada Natives, Community Involvement
Wilson, Choya L.; And Others – 1994
The Department of Education's Academic Excellence Program, which focused on implementation and dissemination of information on effective bilingual education programs, is reported and evaluated. The project's goal was to understand the processes and activities that support successful marketing, adoption, implementation, and sustainment of practices…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingual Education Programs, Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education