THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association urges the U.S. Government to fulfill its’ trust responsibility and fully fund the Federal Impact Aid to support the educational needs of Native students, parents, tribes and local education agencies.
Read MoreNOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that NIEA does hereby request an $8 million increase to ANA over the FY 2009 proposed amount of $46 million and that this $8 million along with the $2 million allocated in the President’s FY 2009 budget be used for Native language immersion and restoration programs under the Esther Martinez Act.
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Indian Education Association will advocate and promote the unique and special educational needs of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians to strengthen and reaffirm Indian Education under the No Child Left Behind legislation; and
Read MoreTHERFORE BE IT RESOLVED, NIEA supports defining graduation rates according to a common standard and the use of longitudinal data systems and individual student identifiers to follow every child’s path to graduation. NIEA also supports an NCLB accountability system that requires schools to increase their disaggregated data on graduation rates over time and to consider graduation rates on an equal footing with high quality assessments aligned to college and work readiness in determining school quality.
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association requests that the interpretation given by the George W. Bush administration of the Continuing Resolution of Congress funding the government through March 6, 2009 by reversed and that programs that have continuously been funded by Congress remain funded through March 6, 2009, including all of the programs mentioned herein; and
Read MoreWHEREAS, the National Indian Education Association (NIEA) was established in 1969 for the purpose of advocating, planning, and promoting the unique and special educational needs of American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association demands that the BIA immediately come into compliance with the federal statute and fund the schools’ facilities, operations, and maintenance at 100%;
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association opposes the promulgation of the performance standards until the consultation requirements are fulfilled by the Office of Head Start; and
Read MoreTHEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, the National Indian Education Association supports a change in NCLB that all Tribes and Tribal Councils through their Tribal Education Departments will be designated as the SEA for the schools on their reservations and
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