The Navajo Nation has a new superintendent for the Department of Diné Education.

Andrew Tah, a tribal member with 37 years of education experience, will oversee implementation of the Sovereignty in Education Act. The law calls for the tribe to assert more control over all schools on the reservation.

“All of us here worry about kids, worry about students, and that’s why we had selected Mr. Tah to be superintendent. He will have a lot of responsibility,” Navajo Board of Education President Jimmie C. Begay said, The Gallup Independent reported.

The tribe's first education superintendent was fired in 2007 after just a couple of months on the job.

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