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Bill Details: HB 33: AMERICAN INDIAN-ALASKAN NATIVE EDUCATION
Sponsor: Jack R. Draxler, Co-Sponsor: Kevin T. Van Tassell
Bill Summary:
This bill creates two committees to submit recommendations to the State school board’s existing and ongoing plan to reduce the Native-American Alaskan-Native achievement gap for the Board to vote on.
General Description: This bill modifies provisions related to American Indian-Alaskan Native education.
• Highlighted Provisions:
o enacts a chapter providing for an American Indian-Alaskan Native Education State Plan, including:
o defining terms;
o providing the position of American Indian-Alaskan Native Public Education
Liaison;
o requiring reporting to the Native American Legislative Liaison Committee; creating the American Indian-Alaskan Native Education Commission;
o establishing the duties of the commission; and
o providing for the adoption of a state plan to address the educational achievement gap of the state’s American Indian-Alaskan Native students; and
o makes technical and conforming amendments.
Reviewer Name: Morgan Olsen, Rating: Oppose
Reviewer Comments:
These committees will be filled with appointees and not elected representatives and can therefore not fully represent the people they are intended to represent.
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