South Dakota's proposal for an Indian charter school didn't make it to the final round of the Obama administration's Race to the Top program.
The state sought $74 million for year-round, residential charter school for Indian students that would have included grades 9 through 12 and two years of college.
The state plans to compete for funding in the future.
"Given the comments by President Obama and [Education] Secretary Duncan and their concern for Native American education ... I'd like to think we have a good project and a fundable project," Dan Guericke, the director of the Mid-Central Education Cooperative, told The Sioux Falls Argus Leader.
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