Tribal Consultation on Improving Indian Education Today in Bloomington

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Aim is to Expand Educational Opportunities and
Improve Academic Achievement Among Indians

BLOOMINGTON, MINNESOTA – William Mendoza, Lakota, executive director of the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, will consult with tribal leaders on Thursday, May 31, to get feedback on education matters affecting American Indians.

The consultation is an outgrowth of President Obama's November 5, 2009 Presidential Memorandum and Executive Order 13175, which directs government agencies to develop a plan of action for providing regular and meaningful consultation and strengthening of government to government relationships with Indian tribes.

Mendoza will listen to tribal leaders provide comments on the Memorandum of Understanding between the US Departments of Education and Interior, which aims to expand educational opportunities and improve academic achievement for American Indians and Alaska Natives. He will also provide updates on efforts in Congress to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

WHAT:
Tribal Consultation on Improving Indian Education

WHO:
William Mendoza, executive director,
White House Initiative on American Indians and Alaska Native

WHERE:
BLN Office Park,
Conference Room 3
2001 Killebrew Drive
Bloomington, Minnesota 55425

WHEN:
May 31, 8 am - 12 noon cdt

posted May 31, 2012 6:30 am edt