Ketchikan Indian Community awarded $1.2M education grant

Friday, October 19, 2012  

The Ketchikan Indian Community in Alaska has received a $1.2 million grant from the Department of Education.

The tribe is using the money to fund the Tribal Scholars project. The program will help the Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District ensure Alaska Native students stay in school and succeed.

“They’re going to get curriculum that’s focused on their needs, as well as one-on-one instruction, all kinds of elements that might help,” Camille Booth, the tribe's curriculum and assessment director, told KRBD. “And all of that is to increase the graduation rate, and Alaska Native attainment of post-secondary education.”

According to the school district, only 56 percent of Alaska Native students graduate.

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