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TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2001

A new federally-funded program at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduated its first three Indian teachers on Saturday.

The Native American Career Ladder Project is a $1.1 million program aimed at placing 30 Indian teachers at reservation schools over a five-year period. There are 17 currently enrolled in the program.

The three who graduated -- Libby Webster, Kellie Mendoza and Delberta Lyons -- have already obtained teaching jobs on reservations in Nebraska.

The trio took courses while living on the Omaha Reservation.

Get the Story:
Program for Native teachers celebrates its first graduates (The Lincoln Journal Star 8/19)
Training Moves Indian Educators Onto Reservations (The Lincoln Journal Star 8/19)