The Bureau of Indian Affairs will hold a series of consultation meetings next month to take tribal input on various education topics.

The 10 meetings run from August 16 through August 20. They will take place in every region of the BIA except Alaska. The meeting for Eastern and Western Oklahoma will be held in Oklahoma City.

According to a Federal Register notice published today, the topics to be discussed are: implementation of a recommendation proposed by the General Accounting Office (GAO) to modify the accounting codes used for the expenditure of funds in schools; developing a high school curriculum to provide high schools students with essential life skills and financial management training to better prepare them for success as adults; establishing a pilot school to test an alternative school model for a Center of Excellence (Leadership Academy) designed to provide students with additional training in leadership; and the upcoming Facility Maintenance and Construction Negotiated Rulemaking.

In related Indian education news, the BIA is holding another meeting of the No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking Committee. The meeting will be held August 10-13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Also, the BIA is reopening, for 10 days, the comment period on several rules developed by the rulemaking committee. The Federal Register notice says the extension was granted to give the Department of Education and others more time to response.

Get the Notices:
Tribal Consultation on Indian Education Topics (July 21, 2004)
Meeting of the No Child Left Behind Negotiated Rulemaking Committee (July 21, 2004)
Home-living Programs and School Closure and Consolidation (July 21, 2004)

Relevant Links:
Office of Indian Education Programs, BIA - http://www.oiep.bia.edu

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