Breanna Bollig on Indian Education Rights

Breanna K. Bollig has published “Improving Public Schools: What Advocates Can Learn From Indian Education Rights” in the Journal of Law and Education.

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Unbeknownst to most education advocates, though, is that Indian education rights provide critical lessons on how to improve schools and the right to education. Just as tribal nations—as separate sovereigns that are capable of enacting their own laws—are considered “laboratories of legal innovation,” there is massive potential for studying Indian education rights. With its successes and failures, education advocates can look to Indian education rights to better develop a strategy to improve public schools. In fact, education advocates could have much needed guidance in asking vital questions surrounding inadequate and inequitable public schools. For example, how should the states and the federal government share the responsibility of education in the United States? How should a federal right to education be created? How can we better hold inadequate and inequitable schools accountable? What other strategies can we use to improve inadequate and inequitable schools?

Federal Court Dismisses Employment Suit by Former School Principal against Marty Indian School Board

Here are the materials in Stathis v. Marty Indian School Board (D.S.D.):

1 Complaint

7 Motion to Dismiss

10 Response

14 Reply

15 DCT Order

South Dakota SCT Affirms Dismissal of Indian Education Claims

Here is the opinion in Black Bear v. Mid-Central Educational Cooperative:

The Atlantic [Family Weekly Newsletter]: “America’s Dark History of Native American Assimilation Schools”

Here.

UCLA GNG Innovative Research in Education Panel

Tarajean Yazzie-Mintz, Sheilah Nicholas, Tiffany Lee, and Teresa McCarty

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“Indian Education in New Mexico 2025” A Report

Here:

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From the executive summary:

This study indicates that best practices in Indian education entail providing a culturally responsive education for Native students. Culturally responsive education requires systemic reform and transformation in educational ideologies. Such a task is not easily accomplished in a rigid public school structure that is
bound by state and federal laws.