Language
and Culture-Based Education
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Requires states to
develop standards-based assessments and classroom lessons that accommodate
diverse learning styles.
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Amends Title III (Language
Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students) of ESEA to
require the Secretary of Education (Secretary) to award grants to Indian and
educational organizations for Native American language programs.
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Establishes the Tribal
Language Immersion Schools program to assist elementary and secondary
schools, and Tribal Colleges and Universities, in using an American Indian,
Alaska Native, or Native Hawaiian language as the primary language of
instruction.
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Directs the Secretary
to expand programs for Native American school children that support learning
in their Native language and culture and provide English language
instruction.
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Directs the Secretary
to conduct research on language and culture-based education.
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Directs the Secretary
of the Interior to establish a grant program to assist Native Americans in
ensuring the survival and continuing vitality of Native American languages.
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Establishes the Center
for Indigenous Excellence to support the development and demonstration of Native
American language and culture-based education.
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Amends Section 131 to make
Native Hawaiian Educational Organizations eligible for grants under the
Improvement of Academic Success of Indian Students through Native American
Languages Programs.
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Tribal
Control of Education
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Authorizes tribes to
enter into agreements with states to assume state responsibilities and
receive a portion of their funding for administering and implementing
specified education programs on tribal lands.
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Establishes an Indian School
Turn Around grant program to assist tribes in implementing transformation,
restart, or turnaround school intervention models at low-performing Indian
schools.
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Amends Title VII
(American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native education), part A of
ESEA to facilitate the participation of tribes in Indian elementary and
secondary education grant programs that fund Native American Language
programs.
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Authorizes tribes to
enter into a cooperative agreement with state education agency (SEA) or local
educational agency (LEA) to assume the role of the SEA or LEA with respect to
schools on Indian land.
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Establishes the Tribal
Education Agency Pilot Project that provides selected Indian tribes with
federal funding, and allows them to administer all state functions authorized
under the ESEA for Indian schools, schools on Indian lands, or schools
serving Indian students.
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Gives Indian schools
and LEAs the same eligibility and consideration for any competitive program
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Amends the Education
Amendments of 1978 to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish the
Tribal Education Policy Advisory Group.
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Requires the Secretary
to study the feasibility of entering into self-governance compacts and
contracts with Indian tribal governments that wish to operate public schools
on their lands.
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Amends Section 213 to make
Indian tribes eligible entities to receive student records on tribal members
without advance parental consent by amending the Family Educational Rights
and Privacy Act (FERPA).
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Amends Section 212 by
adding a new requirement of the Secretary of the Interior to submit
information and funding requests to Congress for the full funding of
administrative costs to tribes for BIE-operated schools.
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Amends Title I, Subtitle E
by adding a new Centers for Innovation in Tribally-Directed Education program
which provides technical and professional expertise to tribes to assist them
in developing a variety of culturally relevant educational programs, systems,
and protocols.
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Amends Section 163 to make
Indian tribes eligible to receive the grants for students attending schools
located on Indian reservations, with the Indian tribe representing the
plurality of Indian children being served as the priority recipient. Also
amends the language to make “Indian community based organizations” instead of
“Indian Committees” eligible to receive the grant if the LEA or an Indian
tribe does not apply.
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Amends Section 185 to make
Indian tribes eligible to receive Impact Aid funding and authorize
cooperative agreements between LEAs and Indian tribes to determine funding
uses.
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Amends Section 171 to
clarify that the pilot project authorizes Indian tribes to be eligible for
federal ESEA title funds (not state education funds) and that states do not
have to report on title funds received by Indian tribes through the pilot
project.
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Amends Section 132 to
require the Secretary to provide federal education funding directly to Indian
tribes and amend the definition of Tribal Education Agencies (TEAs) so that
it is consistent with the other definitions of TEAs in the Act.
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Teacher
Training and Development
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Exempts Native
language teachers from the requirement that teachers be highly qualified.
Requires states to develop alternative licensure or certification
requirements for those teachers.
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Amends Title II
(Teacher and Principal Training and Recruiting Fund), part A of ESEA to
enhance teacher and principal training and recruiting for Indian schools.
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Establishes an Indian
Educator Scholarship program for Indians who are studying to be elementary or
secondary school teachers and agree to serve in an Indian school or public
school serving a significant number of Indian students.
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Includes Indian
schools in the program to recruit and train math and science teachers under Title
II, part B and in the Troops-to-Teachers program under Title II, part C.
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Establishes a program
awarding grants to LEAs, institutions of higher education, or non-profit
organizations to create or expand teacher and administrator pipelines for
educators of Native American students.
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Establishes the
National Board Certification Incentive Demonstration program to cover the
incurred costs for obtaining certification and boost compensation for
teachers of Indians students.
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Considers teachers of
Native American language, history, or culture in a state or any Indian school
to be highly qualified for purposes of ESEA if they are certified by the
tribes to teach those subjects.
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Amends Section 172 to make
Native Hawaiian Education Organizations eligible for the Improve Support for
Teachers and Administrators of Native American Students program.
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Amends Section 173 makes
Native Hawaiians and Native Hawaiian Education Organizations eligible for the
National Board Certification Incentive Demonstration Program.
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Amends Section 191 to
include Native Hawaiians and Native Hawaiian Education Organizations under
the alternative definition of “highly qualified.”
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Tribal
Colleges and Higher Education
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Amends the Equity in
Educational Land Grant Status Act to include Keweenaw Bay Ojibwa Community
College.
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Amends the Workforce
Investment Act to establish an American Indian Tribal College or University
Adult Education and Family Literacy program.
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Directs the Secretary
of the Interior to establish an in-school facility innovation program contest
to encourage institutions of higher education to solve the problem of how to
improve Indian school facilities for problem-based learning.
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Amends Section 211 to add
a new Tribal Colleges and Universities Native American Language Vitalization
and Training Program.
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Amends Section 207 to
include Native Hawaiians as eligible under the American Indian Tribal College
or University Adult Education and Literacy Program.
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Juvenile
Justice
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Establishes an Indian
Children and Youth At-Risk education grant program to assist tribes in
providing education and other services to Indian youth in correctional
facilities.
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Establishes a grant
program to assist tribes in providing educational alternatives for Indian
youth who have been sentenced to incarceration of juvenile detention.
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Amends Title I, part D
(Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth who are
Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk) of ESEA to facilitate the participation of
Indian tribes.
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Other
Key Provisions
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Requires, under Title
IV (21st Century Schools) of ESEA, that the Secretary establish a
Safe and Healthy Schools for Native American Students program.
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Establishes a grant
program to improve the collection, coordination, and electronic exchange of
Indian student records between SEAs, LEAs, and Indian schools.
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Reauthorizes
appropriations under Title VII, part A through FY2017.
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Amends the Impact Aid
program to require the Secretary to complete Impact Aid payments to eligible
LEAs that claim children residing on Indian lands within 3 fiscal years of
their appropriation.
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Requires all ESEA
public school assistance programs to reserve 1% of their funding to provide
Indian schools with the technical expertise and capacity to compete for such
assistance.
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Amends the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to require the Secretary to reserve a
portion of the amounts appropriated for the State Incentive grants and
Innovative Fund programs for Indian schools and to ensure that high quality
early learning services are provided to Indian children.
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Amends the Internal
Revenue Code to exclude certain educational benefits provided to members of
Indian tribes from gross income.
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Amends the Indian
Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act to require the Secretary of
the Interior to establish a qualified school construction bond escrow
account.
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Requires the Secretary
and the Secretary of the Interior to establish a Department of Education/Department
of Interior Joint Oversight Board to coordinate Indian education policies and
assistance.
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Directs the Government
Accountability Office to study the feasibility of transferring the Bureau of
Indian Education from the Department of the Interior to the Department of
Education.
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Revises the Native
Hawaiian Education Act to improve accountability by changing the structure of
the Native Hawaiian Education Council.
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Amends Section 168 to
authorize tribes to be eligible for technical assistance grants to develop
grant applications for Title VII Indian Education Formal grants.
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Amends Section 141 to
require the Secretary of Education to supply Safe and Healthy Schools
programs to all public schools eligible for Formula Grant Programs under Title
VII.
Also directs the Secretary to
work in cooperation with tribes, to the extent practicable, in developing
these programs within one year after enactment.
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Amends Section 111 to
include Native Hawaiian Education Organizations as eligible entities for the
Indian School Turnaround Program.
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