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OCR Page 1 of 83JUN 01 '98 09:01AM OFFICE OF INDIAN EDUCATION
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David Bey 201-0643 0643
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DRAFT MAY 29, 1998 4:00 PM
EXECUTIVE ORDER: AMERICAN INDIAN EDUCATION
401-2961
Preamble:
The Federal Government is committed to improve the academic performance and reduce
the drop out rate of American Indian and Alaska Native students. To help fulfill this
commitment this executive order focuses special attention on five goals; a) improving
mathematics and reading, the two gateway subjects for academic success, b) improving
high school retention, c) increasing Post secondary attendance, d) reducing the influence
of long-standing factors, which mitigate educational performance, such as poverty and
substance abuse, and e) expanding the use of educational technology and related
resources.
Improving educational success rates for Indian students is vital to the national goals of
preparing every student for responsible citizenship, continued learning, and productive
employment. Over half of American Indian and Alaska Native students in the fourth
grade scored below the basic level in reading and math. American Indians and Alaska
Natives have the lowest high school completion and college attendance rates. Schools
that serve Indian students often lack college preparatory classes and, in other ways, fail to
meet their unique educational needs. I am committed to seeing such conditions change.
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The federal government has a special role in the education of American Indians, standing
in the place of local and state government to provide operational support to tribal and
federal schools for Indians as well as to State Public schools educating children on Indian
trust status lands. The Federal government has a special role to assist all schools to meet
the unique education and culturally-related academic needs of American Indians so that
American Indians/Alaska Native can achieve the same high education standards as all
Americans.
To achieve its purposes federal this order calls for a comprehensive and coordinated strategy
across all relevant agencies at the federal level, collaboration with Tribal, State and local
governments at the regional level, and the identification and modeling of effective
practices in schools.
Order:
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and laws of the United
States of America, in affirmation of the unique political and legal relationship of the
Federal Government with American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments, and in
recognition of the special education and culturally related academic needs of Indian
students, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Federal Strategy: The fragmentation of government services to American
Indians appropriate to meeting the goals of this executive order and the complexity of
intergovernmental relationships in the education of American Indians requires a
comprehensive federal response. The goal of the federal activities in this order is to
build toward the development of a long-term comprehensive federal Indian education
policy, which will accomplish the goals of this order.
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