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Posted: <span class="updated" title="2012-12-06T09:38:00-06:00" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Thursday, December 6, 2012 9:38 am</span></p><p class="byline" style="font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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A $1.1 million federal grant will enable the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College and UW-Superior to turn out more Native American school teachers.</p></span><span class="paragraph-1" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">
The goal of the Future Indian Teachers Project is to have 15 students earn their degrees in education from UW-Superior by 2015. Project Coordinator Sarah Butler says having this program will help the students but also the kids they end up teaching. “A lot of kids around here, it’s really important for them to get back into that culture, the language, and their traditions. So having that need with Native American teachers helping those students identify with those that are already in these communities whether that’s LCO, Lac Du Flambeau, Red Cliff, Bad River, St. Croix. You know it’s really important for them to study that along with the adults that are going through this program.”</p>
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