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Most of the White River School District’s students are housed inside a series of connected buildings in the town of 500. “Old Main” is where the middle school is housed. (Courtesy of White River Alumni School Association)
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South Dakota school gets $1.5M surprise donation

By South Dakota Searchlight
Second-grader Winona Begaye uploads homework in her family’s vehicle near Piñon. Navajo Nation schools have remained virtual this fall because it’s too dangerous to reopen their doors. To help families with no internet or poor access get online, the Piñon Unified School District outfitted school buses with Wi-Fi. (Photo by Megan Marples/Cronkite News)
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Massive learning setbacks show COVID's sweeping toll on kids

By Associated Press
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Social studies hearings pit teachers against governor

By The Associated Press
Pictured: University of Alaska Southeast Summer Literacy Camp.
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High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read

By Associated Press
Deontay Begay, a Navajo student from New Mexico, plays basketball for Northwest Indian College, a tribal college in Bellingham, Wash. (Photo by Charlotte West for Open Campus)
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Scholarships through sports, goals beyond

By Open Campus
Amia Roach-Valandra, Sičangu Lakota, just finished her first year at USC. (Photo courtesy of Tara Weston via Open Campus)
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Missing home, finding community, and pushing past failure

By Open Campus
Powell library at UCLA is one of the most beautiful college libraries in the US. (Photo by Campus Grotto, Creative Commons)
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Education reparation: UC tuition scholarships for Natives are just, overdue

By Randall Akee, Phenocia Bauerle, Paul Ong and Desi Small-Rodriguez
FILE- New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs one of a suite of education bills that will increase teacher salaries and benefits on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M. On Thursday, March 3, 2022, Grisham signed a bill, sponsored by state Rep. Derrick Lente, of the Sandia Pueblo, that will set a minimum salary for teachers certified to teach eight tribal languages taught in public schools and spoken by members of the state's 23 tribes and pueblos. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)
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New Mexico advocates review plan aimed at education deficits

By The Associated Press
The University of California, Berkeley in California, Friday, April 29, 2022. (Photo by Mark Trahant, Indian Country Today)
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California universities, tribe make tuition free for many Indigenous students

By Chris Aadland
Elementary students celebrate graduation in 2021 at Wakanyeja Tokeyahci, a privately funded Lakota immersion school on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in south-central South Dakota. (Photo courtesy of Wakanyeja Tokeyahci)
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Despite defeat, backers of Native education reform press forward

By South Dakota News Watch
New Mexico Public Education Secretary Ryan Stewart had lunch with students in April when he visited Wagon Mound Elementary. (Photo courtesy of New Mexico Public Education Department Facebook)
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Increased focus on race in K-12 despite backlash

By The Associated Press
Photo caption: Benjamin Quanah Parker is pictured on the Portland State University campus on Feb. 16. Photo by Jes Abeita/Underscore.news
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University graduates first Native with PhD in math

By Chris Aadland
Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr. Randy Watson
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School official suspended over remark about Native people

By The Associated Press
Kansas Commissioner of Education Dr. Randy Watson
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Native lawmakers call for Kansas education leader's resignation

By The Associated Press
This artist's rendering shows plans for 3D designed, 2,000-square-foot homes completed at left and still under construction on the right for a proposed housing development in Texas. (Photo courtesy ICON)
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Tribal college part of NASA plan

By South Dakota News Watch
Entries for the 2015 Young Native Writers Essay Contest are due by April 15, 2015.
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Raise your hand: Schools seek volunteers in staffing crunch

By Associated Press
New Mexico state flag. (Creative Commons)
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New approach to teaching race divides state

By The Associated Press
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces her decision to sign a law that legalizes recreational marijuana outside the state Capitol building in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday, April 12, 2021. The Democratic governor described the law as a victory for social justice and a potential boon for economic development. Her decision makes New Mexico the seventh state since last November to legalize adult possession and sales of cannabis for recreational use. The legislation gives the governor strong oversight through the governor's appointed superintendent of the Regulation and Licensing Department. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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Overdue education plan frustrates New Mexico tribal leaders

By Associated Press
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New Mexico education plan gets feedback on race, economics

By The Associated Press
About 100 people, many of them Native Americans, held a protest in Pierre in September to push for improved teaching of Native American history and culture in South Dakota schools and to decry removal of Native references from proposed social studies standards. (Photo courtesy of DRG Media Group via SD News Watch)
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South Dakotans overwhelmingly support teaching of Native history, culture

By South Dakota News Watch
In this Sunday, April 19, 2020, the water tower and a basketball backboard at the school in Chilchinbeto, Arizona, on the Navajo reservation, are seen at sunrise. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Indian Education Policy renewal ‘a step in the right direction’

By Arizona Mirror
A student carries a math book delivered by school bus driver Kelly Maestas along his rural route outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance. The school system is sending school buses to students' far-flung homes to bring them assignments, meals and a little human contact. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
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Latest New Mexico K-12 curriculum controversy

By The Associated Press
(Photo courtesy of University of Minnesota)
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The Wrap: UMinn expands tuition support for Native students

By ICT
In this Jan. 23, 2019, file photo, Gov. Kristi Noem gives her first budget address to lawmakers at the state Capitol in Pierre, S.D. Noem will use her State of the State address to pitch prospective businesses on why they should move to South Dakota, the Republican governor told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview on Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (AP Photo/James Nord, File)
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Changes to social studies standards should be delayed

By The Associated Press