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Some American Indian/Alaska Native students attend schools administered by or affiliated with the U.S. Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Education (BIE).1 Schools funded by the BIE are either operated by the BIE or by tribes under contracts or grants. BIE-operated schools are under the direct auspices of the BIE, and tribally operated schools are run by individual federally recognized tribes with grants or contracts from the BIE.
In 2006–07, some 184 elementary and secondary school programs were BIE funded, and 61 of these were also BIE operated. The remaining 123 school programs were operated by tribes, under BIE contracts or grants (appendix table A-2.2). These schools were located on 63 reservations in 23 states and enrolled 48,500 students, up 6 percent from the 45,800 students enrolled in 2003–04 (U.S. Department of the Interior, 2004b). In 2005-06, a majority of these schools (70 percent) had 300 or fewer students.
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