Blueprint for Gradual Turnover of BIA Schools to State Formulated
BIA Chiefs
Soon To Be
Selected
Area Field Representatives for
Bureau of Indian Affairs regional
offices at Fairbanks, Nome, and
Bethel will soon be selected, ac
cording to Robert L. Bennett, BIA
area director.
A list of about 30 eligibles has
been published. Bennett will se
lect the top two or three applicants
for the different positions and the
final selection will be made by
Bureau of Indian Affairs Commis
sioner Philleo Nash.
The positions woe created upon
recommendation of the Alaska Task
Force sent to Alaska last year by
Secretary of Interior Stewart L.
Udall.
' Formerly, the head of BlA re
gional offices were required to be
educational specialists because the
BIAw -warn cWWtYy concerned with
education. Since the BIA is now
involved in many other fields such
8s employment assistance and econ
omic development, the job has been
reclassified in the field of adminis
tration. It calls for a GS-12 or 13
Civil service rating.
Bennett said he hoped to have
the area field representative named
by the time school starts this fall.
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Governor William A. Egan has
recently submitted to Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall an over
all education plan for the gradual
turn-over of Bureau of Indian Af
fairs Schools in Alaska to state op
eration.
Many far reaching recommenda
tions are included in the 22-page
document containing many appen
dices outlying the blueprint for the
educational future of rural Alas
kans.
The plan which has been more
than a year in the making was
drawn up by the Governor’s Com
mittee on Education, headed by Dr.
Charles Ray, Dean of Education at
the Univeristy of Alaska.
Alaska schools are described in
the study, general policy considera
tions are discussed, and sections are
written on the different types of
Alaska schools — the small elemen
tary school, the regular (local) high
school, the regional board high
school. Chapters are included on
Finance, special educational pro
grams, and the continuing commit
tee on education.
Here ere many of the recommen
dations concluding the report:
1. The highest priority should be
given to establishing and improving
elementary school where adequate
education is not now being provid
ed. Second priority was recommend
ed for the construction of local high
schools in communities which can
support them. The third priority
was reccomniended for regional
boarding schools to accommodate
students for whom a high school
program is not available locally
2. The Alaska Department of Edu
cation and the Bureau of Indian
Affairs should jointly determine
where additional high school facili
ties should be established. Where
full high school education cannot be
provided, the feasibility of provid
ing education in Grades 9 and 10
should be investigated.
3. Every effort should be made to
provide elementary and secondary
school education for all Alaska’s
children through local schools and
boarding schools or by placing chil
dren in approved homes where
schools are located.
4. The Department of Education
should inquire into the availability
of non-utilized space in district
schools which can be made avail
able for boarding school students.
5. Adequacy of educational pro
grams in local and boarding schools
should be under conitnuous review.
6. The State should delay estab
lishing other regional boarding high
schools over the two (Nome and
Kodiak-Aleutians) now authorized
until additional experience can be
obtained through the operation of
these two schools.
7. Careful studies should be made
o* per-p\»pU co«t« at tha two board
ing schools. The possibility of in
creasing enrollments should be in
vestigated as an alternative to es
tablishing new schools.
8. Where possible, the State
should carry out a continuing pro
gram of pre-vocational and occupa
tionally-orientated education which
will realistically take into account
the availability of job opportuni
ties in Alaska.
9. The possibility of using uniform
standards for schools should be ex
plored.
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10. Postgraduate technical or vo
cational training at high school sites,
particularly at boarding school lo
cations, should be considered.
11. The possibility of assisting un
educated youths and adults through
additional education and training
at Mt. Edgecumbe should be ex
plored.
12. The State and the BIA should
make arrangements for an orderly
transfer of BIA schools to State ad
ministration on a region-by-region
basis under Johnson-O'Malley con
tracts.
13. Transfer of BIA schools to the
State under Johnson - O’Malley
should be done as quickly as prac
ticable.
J4. The State, through its politi
cal subdivisions, should assume the
financial burden of all elementary
and secondary schools when the
areas in which these schools are
located are incorporated into bur
roughs.
15. A continuing education com
mittee should be established to re
view and revise the over-all educa
tion plan and to direct research and
investigation into areas specified by
the committee.
16. The Committee also set forth
criteria which would be adhered to
as closely as possible in establishing
new schools.
The Governor’s Committee on
Education is composed of Robert L.
Bennett, area director of the BIA,
Robert Isaac, Assistant Commis
sioner of Education, Hunt Gruening.
member of the Alaska Board of
Education, Dr. Ray, and Hugh J.
Wade, Secretary of State.
Alaska’s recently appointed Com
missioner of Education, William
Zahradnicek, subscribes to the plan
and Governor Egan reviewed and
accepted it as the official state plan.
Articles based upon sections of
the study will be printed in forth
coming issues of the Tundra Times.
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