Posted on 03/19/2013 7:31:29 AM PDT by 95Theses
Schools on Minnesota’s American Indian reservations are already suffering from the across-the-board budget cuts of the federal sequester, taking a hit months before the rest of the country’s classrooms will feel the effects of reduced funding.
The White Earth Reservation could cut the school year short at its federally funded tribal school.
The Red Lake School District, where the high school was the site of a shooting that left seven people dead in 2005, has scaled back its security staff.
And school officials on reservations across the state have already slashed this year’s budgets in anticipation of sequester cuts, packing more students in classrooms, trimming class offerings and letting vacant jobs go unfilled.
“There’s a real sense of frustration for everybody,” Red Lake Superintendent Steve Wymore said.
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Seems that as much as I am hearing is getting cut that there is more than 58 billion being cut.
Obama is acting like a child with his selective sequester cuts.
Most of the Tribes have casinos, I know Red Lake does. Fond du lac has two, they need to use the Casino $$$ for schools
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