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Lead-Safe Schools MKE is advocating for stricter testing protocols and a focus on preventative measures to address the lead crisis in schools. Cookie Talyor wants answers. Her 11-year-old ...
When Iko’tsimiskimaki “Ekoo” Beck’s colleagues at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition traveled to Washington to digitize Indian boarding school records ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Kathy Hochul formally apologized Tuesday for the “atrocities” she says were committed at an upstate boarding school where Native American youths were forcibly ...
NEW YORK — New York’s governor visited the Seneca Nation on Tuesday and formally apologized for “atrocities” she says were committed at a state boarding school that separated Native ...
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of ...
The base was also the location of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, which operated with a mission to "kill the Indian" to "save the man." A new book examines the impact of such Indian boarding ...
On March 31, the Department of Government Efficiency announced cuts of $1.6 million to projects designed to preserve the stories of federal Indian boarding school victims and provide healing to their ...
As workers set up stations at North Division High School’s cafeteria to test children’s blood for lead, a group of frustrated parents and community activists gathered just outside the main ...
An early morning fire forced students and staff to evacuate a girls dormitory at a Connecticut boarding school on Tuesday. Emergency crews responded to the blaze at Cheshire Academy‘s Hurley ...
MODEL. JASON ASHLEY, BALTIMORE CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS LEAD WATER ISSUES IN THE PAST ARE WELL DOCUMENTED, BUT OVER FIVE YEARS OF RECENT TESTING, CITY SCHOOLS HAVE SEEN LOWER LEVELS OF LEAD THAN MOST ...
The Bad River reservation was one of the poorest in Wisconsin, and Bernice’s grandmother had to fall back on “the chilcare choice of last resort”—an Indian boarding school. Medicine River ...
IF YOU’RE OF A CERTAIN AGE, YOU MIGHT HAVE GROWN UP DRINKING WATER OUT OF THIS, BUT THESE DAYS YOUR CHILD MAY BE BRINGING A WATER BOTTLE LIKE THIS ONE TO SCHOOL. AND AS NEW STATEWIDE LEAD ...