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Colorado Lawmakers Backing Away From Indian Treaty

Colorado lawmakers consider cutting funding for American Indian students at state college

DENVER January 15, 2010 (AP)

Colorado lawmakers are considering a bill that would cut $1.8 million in funding each year for Native American students attending Fort Lewis College in Durango and could violate a 99-year-old Indian treaty.

In 1911, as a condition of accepting thousands of acres of land in Hesperus in southwest Colorado, state lawmakers agreed to establish an institute of learning and all Native American students would be admitted tuition free.

Now, facing a budget crunch, Colorado lawmakers want to take some of that money away. See the full story http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9573804

DO NOT GO AWAY. DIG THIS. THEY WANT TO BREAK THIS TREATY TO EDUCATE AMERICAN INDIANS JUST AS AMERICAN INDIANS BEGIN TO BLOOM. CHECK THIS OUT.

American Indian students rise above expectation

Friday, March 19, 2010

As anyone who has visited our schools knows, our kids learn the values of capitalism through an educational model that rewards excellence and punishes laziness. Our students make no pledges and take no oaths.

The American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland serves 200 students in grades six through eight, and its sister high school serves 100 students. Last year, 100 percent of our students were accepted to four-year colleges, including Stanford, MIT, Cornell and UC Berkeley. Our students' average SAT scores were 150 points above the national average. Oakland Unified School District's graduation rate is 51 percent.

On last year's state assessment, 100 percent of our eighth-grade students tested at or above grade level in language arts and Algebra I. By contrast, only 29 percent of eighth-grade students in Oakland schools tested at or above grade level in language arts, and just 24 percent tested proficient or advanced in Algebra I.

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