Opinion: U.S. Bureau of Indian Education needs help
Source: mitchellrepubli Posted By: Williams M...5401 days ago
First off, let me dispense with the very boring but very necessary details.
The Office of Indian Education became the Bureau of Indian Education on Aug. 29, 2006. There are those Indian educators who wonder whether changing the name also changed the direction or succeeded in repairing the inadequacies of the former system for Native American students. School is still out on that one.
Last year the new Bureau funded 184 elementary and secondary schools located on 64 reservations in 23 states....