By: Amelia Schafer, ICT

Recent Department of Education shifts will transfer 24 programs serving Indian Country to the Department of the Interior, a move that tribal leaders say they weren’t consulted about.

Native-specific programs such as Title VI, Native Language programming, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Education, and tribal college-related programs, will move to the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The move is already underway, following the announcement on Nov. 18 amid continued efforts from the Trump Administration to begin to dismantle the Department of Education.

These changes will have significant impacts on the nation’s education system, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium said in a statement on Nov. 18.

“There should have been consultation then and there ne

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