Bill to bring Native American languages into local schools gets initial thumbs up at Capitol (fwd link)

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Bill to bring Native American languages into local schools gets initial
thumbs up at Capitol

Measure by Aurora state Sen. Suzanne Williams would allow schools to hire
teachers without licenses to instruct students on languages including
Comanche, Ute and Navajo

Posted: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 4:21 pm | Updated: 4:30 am, Thu Feb
23, 2012.
By SARA CASTELLANOS Staff Writer
USA

AURORA | A Comanche Indian state lawmaker from Aurora is pushing a bill to
promote American Indian languages in public schools.

The proposal is still at the beginning stages of the lawmaking process and
was heard on the Senate floor on Feb. 22 after being passed unanimously by
the Senate Education Committee on Feb. 15. The bill hadn't been heard on
the Senate floor before press time.

The bill, sponsored by state Sen. Suzanne Williams, D-Aurora, would allow
Indian tribal elders to work in public schools as teachers of their native
languages.

"As a Native American legislator myself, I've learned that across the
country, Native American legislators are concerned about losing the native
languages of their states," Williams said.

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