Indian Schools Suffer Federal Neglect

The federal government runs two K-12 school systems: one for Department of Defense employees and service members and the other for Native American children. The two systems are separate, but it’s increasingly evident that they’re far from equal — a disturbing situation particularly in the Upper Midwest, which has one of the nation’s biggest clusters of Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) schools spread across Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin.