Ensuring No American Indian and Alaska Native Child Is Left Behind

The mission of the Office of Indian Education is to support the efforts of local educational agencies, Indian tribes and organizations, postsecondary institutions, and other entities to meet the unique educational and culturally related academic needs of American Indians and Alaska Natives so that these students can achieve to the same challenging state standards as all students.

The No Child Left Behind Act amends the Indian education programs as Title VII, Part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This landmark in education reform embodies four key principles: stronger accountability for results; greater flexibility in the use of federal funds; more choices for parents of children from disadvantaged backgrounds; and an emphasis on research-based instruction that works.

Announcements and Highlights

• Office of Indian Education Announces 2009 Discretionary Awards
  The Office of Indian Education recently announced the 2009 Discretionary Awards for Demonstration Grants for Indian Children and Professional Development. Below is a listing of the awards. Links to the project abstracts may be accessed by clicking on the category before each listing.

  2009 DEMONSTRATION GRANT AWARDS

  ALASKA:
  Bering Strait School District, Unalakleet - $291,293
  Cook Inlet Tribal Council, Anchorage - $260,289
  Goldbelt Heritage Foundation, Juneau- $276,220
  Juneau - $276,220

  ARIZONA:
  Page Unified School District, Page - $284,690
  Painted Desert STAR School, Flagstaff - $249,155

  CALIFORNIA:
  Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians, Tuolumne - $98,587

  MONTANA:
  Arlee School District, Arlee - $192,259

  NEBRASKA:
  Omaha Public Schools, Omaha - $281,372

  NEW MEXICO:
  Alamo Navajo School Board, Magdalena - $197,360

  OKLAHOMA:
  Rocky Mountain Elementary School, Stilwell - $200,266

  OREGON:
  Native American Youth and Family, Portland - $272,632

  SOUTH DAKOTA:
  Mid-Central Educational Cooperative, Platte - $229,171

  WASHINGTON:
  Puget Sound Educational Service District, Renton - $295,034

  WISCONSIN:
  Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Bayfield - $275,960

  The official press release for the Demonstration awards can be found at this link:

  2009 INDIAN PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT GRANT AWARDS

  ARIZONA
  Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff - $345,958
  Arizona State University West Campus, Glendale - $383,566
  Arizona State University, Tempe - $399,351

  MINNESOTA
  College of St. Scholastica, Duluth - $399,625

  MONTANA
  Fort Belknap College, Harlem - $384,670
  Salish Kootenai College, Pablo - $360,946

  NEBRASKA
  Nebraska Indian Community College, Macy - $126,806

  OKLAHOMA
  Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant - $304,341

  OREGON
  University of Oregon, Eugene - $344,950

  SOUTH DAKOTA
  Oglala Lakota College, Kyla - $358,264
  Sinte Glaska University, Mission - $355,832
  (July 6, 2009)

• 2009 Student Art Competition Award Winners Announced
  Congratulations to the Office of Indian Education's 2009 Native American Student Artist Competition winners! The competition was open to all American Indian and Alaska Native students in Grades Pre-K through 12. A total of 604 students from 30 states submitted works in a variety of media.

  Entries relate to the 2009 theme Tradition is My Life, Education is My Future and reflect the promise and importance of pursuing aneducation for native youth. Winning artists will receive a certificate, engraved plaque and art materials. Winning writers will also receive a certificate and engraved plaque, as well as a flash drive and electronic dictionary. Thank you to all who participated! For more information on the exibit and winners, please log on to OIE's companion site at: http://kids.indianeducation.org/index.cfm?page=SAC_2009_winners.html
  (July 6, 2009)

• Digital Teacher Workshops
  In collaboration with the Teacher to Teacher initiative, we've recently added two more digital teacher workshops providing free online resources for incorporating culture into your classroom instruction on math. These workshops can be used by all teachers working with Native students and can be easily accessed through the Internet. In addition to the five sessions we now have, we're almost ready to release another workshop that focuses on science. You can check out all of our Digital Teacher Workshops from the link on our homepage or at: https://www.t2tweb.us/default.asp
  (October 31,2008)

• National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II Released
  National Indian Education Study 2007 Part II: Performance of American Indian and Alaska Native Students at Grades 4 and 8 on NAEP 2007 Reading and Mathematics Assessments is now available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard. Part II of the NIEA is a survey that provides information on the educational experiences of the fourth- and eighth-grade American Indian and Alaska Native students who participated in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) assessments. The survey is reported separately from Part I and includes information on the integration of native language and culture into school and classroom activities. The report may be downloaded at this link: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nies
  

  For each of the Findings, you can access related results in PDF format by clicking in the colored box. Read the executive summary, and print the report at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/
  2008458.asp The study is sponsored by the Office of Indian Education (OIE) and conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics for the U.S. Department of Education. NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences.
  (June 30, 2008)

• National Indian Education Study 2007 Part I Released
  National Indian Education Study 2007 Part I: Performance of American Indian and Alaska Native Students at Grades 4 and 8 on NAEP 2007 Reading and Mathematics Assessments is now available at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard The report presents the results of Part I of the National Indian Education Study (NIES) focusing on the performance of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) fourth- and eighth-graders on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress in reading and mathematics. A national sample of approximately 10,100 AI/AN students at grades 4 and 8 participated in the reading assessment and 10,300 in the mathematics assessment. Results from this study are compared to those from the first NIES conducted in 2005. The results for 11 states with relatively large populations of AI/AN students are presented in addition to the national results.

  Overall, the average reading scores for AI/AN fourth- and eighth-graders showed no significant change since 2005 and were lower than the scores for non-AI/AN students in 2007.

  There was, however, an increase in the percentage of AI/AN fourth-graders performing at or above the Proficient level from 21 percent in 2005 to 25 percent in 2007.

  In 2007 at both grades, AI/AN students attending schools in which less than 25 percent of the students were AI/AN scored higher than their peers attending schools with higher concentrations of AI/AN students, and those attending public schools scored higher than their peers in Bureau of Indian Education schools.

  See complete results at: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/nies
  Read the executive summary of the report at: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/pubs/studies/
  2008457.asp
  NIES was conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics on behalf of the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Indian Education. NAEP, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, is administered by the National Center for Education Statistics within the Institute of Education Sciences.
  (May 14, 2008)

• State Points of Contact
  For Formula grant applicants applying for 2008 funding, we are posting the State Points of Contact listing for your information. For states that comply with Executive Order 12372 and receive copies of Formula grant applications we are providing a list of the locations by state. Please check our Indian Formula Resources page for more information. http://www.ed.gov/programs/indianformula/resources.html
  (April 18, 2008)

• Update on OIE Contacts
  OIE's work in processing all applications and awards is performed by teams instead of specific state assignments of grantees to program specialists. For more information and a listing of teams, see Contacts for OIE.
  (April 6, 2007)

• New ED506 Form Available
  A new Title VII Student eligibility form is now available from the Office of Indian Education. The 506 Form is used by Indian education formula programs to document Indian heritage of participating students. To download this file follow this link to our Indian formula resource page: http://www.ed.gov/programs/indianformula/resources.html
  (October 23, 2006)

Office of Indian Education Contacts
Indian Formula Grant Program
Indian Formula Grant Applicant Information
Indian Formula Grant Resources
Indian Demonstration Grant Program
Indian Demonstration Grant Applicant Information
Indian Professional Development Grant Program
Indian Professional Development Grant Applicant Information
National Advisory Council on Indian Education
National Advisory Council on Indian Education Charter
National Advisory Council on Indian Education Annual Reports
Title VII Legislation
Department of Education Federal Register Notices Page
EDGAR
(January 23, 2009)

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