December 2024

These Native tribes are working with schools to boost attendance [edsource.org]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 12/4/242:31 PM

Nationwide, Native students miss school far more frequently than their peers, but not at Watonga High School shown on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Oklahoma. Credit: Nick Oxford / AP Photo By Felix Clary, EdSource, December 3, 2024 As the Watonga school system’s Indian education director, Hollie Youngbear works to help Native American students succeed in the Oklahoma district — a job that begins with getting them to school. She makes sure students have clothes and school supplies. She...

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