As The Blue Lake Rancheria Receives a Grant for Ensuring the Future of Native American Students, Local School Districts Struggle with Addressing Cultural Differences that Lead to High Suspensions [lostcoastoutpost.com]

By Freddy Brewster, Lost Coast Outpost, February 7, 2020

The Blue Lake Rancheria recently received a $156,116 grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the State Tribal Education Program to establish a multi-district agency aimed at improving not only Native American youth success, but the success of the community as well.

The grant money will be used to set up an education authority with officials from Blue Lake Rancheria, the Northern Humboldt Unified School District, College of the Redwoods and the Humboldt County Office of Education to establish a curriculum that focuses on Native American cultural responsiveness and project-based learning.

“[This grant] is about building the administrative network needed to run a school,” said Alison Robbins, BLR’s education program director. She went on to emphasize that the programs derived from the future agency will not be ones that are simply just a lecture. “We want to make sure to use project-based learning that is culturally responsive while using tribal knowledge.”

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