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<font face="georgia, serif">Native Advocates Ramp Up Support for Sen. Tester’s Language Bill</font></h2></div></div></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px 1px 0px 0px;border-right-style:solid;border-right-color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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</p></div></div></div><address style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:inherit;line-height:16px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small;line-height:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Just before Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) took up the gavel of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in February, he introduced the Native Language Immersion Student Achievement Act, which would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) to provide increased federal financial support to Native American language programs at American Indian-focused schools.</span><br>
</address><font face="georgia, serif"><br>If passed, the bill would establish a grant program to support schools using Native American languages as their primary language of instruction. The legislation would appropriate $5 million for fiscal year 2015, and “such sums as may be necessary for each of the succeeding 4 fiscal years.” The secretary of the Department of Education would be responsible for making grant awards to eligible institutions each of the years, and grantees would be required to submit annual reports.<br>
<br>“We are racing against the clock to save and revitalize our sacred Native American languages,” Tester said when he announced the bill. “Preserving Native languages will strengthen Indian culture and increase student confidence—leading to greater academic achievement and a stronger economy.”<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large;display:inline">
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