Sentences with phrase «bia schools»

The BIA has recognized how much excitement the native studies component generates and is working to infuse native culture throughout the curriculum in the BIA schools, Shaughnessy said.

Few of the K - 8 BIA schools are able to keep track of students once they leave to determine if they graduate from high school, added King.

Reducing that figure is a priority for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Office of Indian Education Programs and individual BIA schools such as those in Maine: Beatrice Rafferty School, on the Passamaquoddy reservation in Perry, and Indian Island School, on the Penobscot reservation.

At the same time, achievement at Department of Defense schools, which, like BIA schools, are financed and operated almost entirely by the federal government, is higher than that of public schools, the report says.

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Those figures, though, include only students who attend BIA secondary schools, not public schools, according to Gaye Liea King, special assistant to the director of the Office of Indian Education Programs.

The BIA also conducted a survey of middle school students in 1997 to determine which at - risk behaviors among students could contribute to them dropping out of school.

«We are still struggling,» Lana Shaughnessy, a BIA spokeswoman, said about its 185 schools meeting BIA standards.

Museveni said all BIA pupils will be transferred to GPE [Global Partnership for Education] schools — state schools run by the Ugandan government.

He speaks with enthusiasm about how the law school is engaging with the local community most recently through, for example, a partnership with the Duke Heights BIA.

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